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1. claudo, clausī, clausum, ere, in der Volksspr. u. daraus in der Schriftspr. auch clūdo, clūsī, clūsum, ere (vgl. κληίζω, κλείω, ich schließe), schließen, sperren, I) im allg. = zuschließen, zumachen, verschließen, versperren ( absperren), verstopfen, 1) eig.: a) eine Öffnung, einen offenen Raum (Ggstz. aperire, patefacere, reserare), ianuam, Cic.: ianua clauditur serā firmā, Tibull.: im Bilde, omnibus et virtutibus ianuam claudit et delictis aperit, Val. Max. – valvae repagulis clausae, Cic.: valvae clausae subito se aperuerunt, Cic. – cl. forem cubiculi, Cic.: fores carceris adamante clausae, Ov. – clausae fenestrae (Ggstz. apertae fenestrae), Cels.: pars adaperta fuit, pars altera clausa fenestrae, Ov. – cl. portas, Caes.: portas obice firmo, Ov.: portas alci, Caes. u. (Ggstz. alqm suā urbe recipere) Cic.: Ianum (Quirinum od. Quirin i), den Janustempel (was dann geschah, wenn im ganzen röm. Reiche Ruhe war), Liv., Hor. u. Suet., u. so Ianum geminum, Flor. – cubiculum, Quint.: domum, Verg. u. Tac.: domum alci, Plin., u. (im Bilde) alci rei od. contra alqd, Cic. – tabernas, Cic.: claudi tabernas totā urbe iussit, Liv. – oppidum undique, Sall. – cl. curiam, Liv.: u. im Bilde, clausa curia pauperibus est, Ov. – nostros ocellos (v. Tode), Prop.: lumina (v. der Nacht), Ov.: in aeternam lumina noctem, Verg. – cl. aures alci rei u. ad alqd (bildl.,

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Ggstz. aures aperire, reserare), Cic., adversus alqd, Sen.: os (den Mund), Tac. – corpore cluso adversus vim veneni, Tac. – donec ex toto plaga claudatur, Cels. – cl. foramina (tibiarum), Plin.: fistulam demisso linteolo, Cels. – neque congesta aut clausa humus, kein Hügel über ihr erhoben, kein Grab geschlossen, Tac. – v. verschließenden Ggstdn. selbst, mille domos clausere serae, Ov.: palpebrae aptissime factae et ad claudendas pupulas et ad aperiendas, Cic.: lingua (επιγλωττίς), quae arteriam claudit, Cels. – im Bilde, in ipsius consuetudinem, quam adhuc meus pudor mihi clausit, insinuabo, Cic. ep. 4, 13, 6. – Partiz. subst., clausum, ī, n., der Verschluß, Schloß und Riegel, assueta clauso corpora, Sen. exc. contr. 3. pr. § 15. p. 245, 12 K.: ponere in clauso, *Titin. com. 61. Verg. georg. 4, 303: sub clauso habere, Col. 7, 6, 5: clauso custodire fructus, Col. 12. pr. § 3. – Plur., clausa domorum, viarum, Lucr. 1, 354: clausa effringere, Schlösser u. Riegel aufsprengen, Sall. Iug. 12, 5. – b) einen Weg, Paß, ein Land usw. verschließen, sperren, versperren = ungangbar, unbetretbar, unzugänglich machen, iter, Ov.: pollice vocis iter, Ov.: flumina ac terras et quodam modo caelum (durch hohe Bauten), Tac. – omnia litora ac portus custodiā clausos teneri, Caes.: portus obiectā ad ingressum catenā clausus, Frontin.: cl. terrestres aditus opportune positis praesidiis, Liv.: longis navi-

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bus versum in Italiam mare, Tac.: omnes aditus custodiis, Tac.: forum saepietur, omnes aditus claudentur, Cic. – v. den Ggstdn. selbst, die eine Örtl. versperren, in ipso exitu ita conferti obstitere Galli, ut clauderent viam, Liv.: si manantia corpuscula iter claudunt, Cels.: clauderet ut Tatio fervidus umor iter, Ov. – clausam Alpibus Italiam, Tac. – c) etw. schließen = sich unmittelbar an etw. anschließen, anlehnen, als geogr. t. t. v. Örtl. usw., insula ea sinum ab alto claudit, in quo Carthago sita est, Liv.: dextra laevaque (Akk. Plur.) duo maria (Nom. Plur.) claudunt (nobis) nullam ne ad effugium quidem navem habentibus, Liv.: Angrivarios et Chamavos a tergo Dulgubnii et Chasuarii claudunt, Tac. – u. als milit. t. t., v. Bedeckung, Nachhut usw., agmen claudere, den Zug schließen, Caes. u.a. (vgl. agmen no. II, 2, a, α): dextrum, sinistrum latus, decken, Tac. – 2) übtr.: a) ein Land für den Verkehr verschließen, sperren, Britanniam tam diu clausam aperire, Mela: patefactum nostris legionibus Pontum, qui antea populo Romano ex omni aditu clausus fuisset, Cic.: tamquam clausa sit Asia, sic nihil perfertur ad nos praeter rumores de oppresso Dolabella, Cic. – quod clausae hieme Alpes essent, Liv.: rura tum gelu claudit hiems, Verg. – u. bes. cl. mare, das Meer für die Schiffahrt schließen (v. Stürmen, Winter usw.), gew. im Passiv, adhuc clausum fuisse mare scio, Cic.: sociis nostris

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mare per hos annos clausum fuisse, Cic.: ex die III. Id. Nov. usque in diem VI. Id. Martiis maria clauduntur. Veget. mil. – u. dafür clausum litus, Tac. hist. 4, 38. – b) schließen = beschließen, beendigen, α) übh.: (Ggstz. inchoare, incipere), opus, Ov.: epistulam, Ov. – insigne facinus strenuo ac forti exitu, die Krone aufsetzen, Val. Max. – als nachaug. rhet. t. t., claudit (absol.) optime prima pars versus (des V.), Quint.: cum versus cluditur Apennino et armamentis, Quint.: cludendi inchoandique sententias ratio, Quint.: disputatio illa contra Gorgian ita clauditur, ουκοῦν etc., Quint.: cum ventum est ad ipsum illud, quo veteres comoediae tragoediaeque clauduntur, ›Plaudite!‹ Quint. – β) eine Zeit beschließen, octavum lustrum, Hor. carm. 2, 4, 24: diem vitae huius extremum, Augustin. de civ. dei 21, 22: octavo anno imperii sui diem ultimum, Capit. Anton. phil. 18, 1. – c) Partiz. clausus, verschlossen dem Charakter nach, Tiberius, Tac. ann. 3, 15.

II) prägn.: A) = intercludere, etwas in seinem Laufe, Fortgange absperren, abschneiden, rivos, Verg.: fontes (Ggstz. novos fontes emittere, v. der Schöpfung), Ov.: sanguinem, stillen, Plin. u. Iustin. – u. transitum (Durchgang), Liv.: maritimos exitus, Cic.: commeatus, Liv.: longis navibus versum in Italiam mare, Liv.: portā castrorum ducis principumque fuga clausa erat, Liv.: u. v. lebl. Gegenständen,

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horum ferocia vocem Euandri clausit, Liv. 44, 45, 12: neutra (littera) claudet vocem Latinam, Quint. 1, 5, 31. – B) = concludere, includere, etw. einschließen, 1) eig.: a) eine Sache verschließen, thesauros, Quint.: vilissima quaeque anulo clausa, Tac.: cui tot consulum vina cluduntur, Sen.: Aeoliis aquilonem in antris, Ov. – od. leb. Wesen einsperren, cl. filium, Nep.: fera animalia clausa tenere, Tac.: clausus pavo, Publil. com. fr. – cl. alqm in curiam, Liv., u. alqm in curia, Liv. (s. Drak., Fabri u. Weißenb. Liv. 23, 2, 9): alqm in arca, Hor.: alqm cum cane in cavea, Iustin.: alqm cum alqo harā, Ov.: in carcere claudi, Tac.: carcere claudi, Ov.: claudi cubiculo, Tac.: cl. pecus textis cratibus, einpferchen, Hor. – se Daphnae (zu D.), Iustin. – pictor intra officinam suam clausus, Sen. – b) umzingeln, umstellen, α) als milit. t. t.: Numantiam, Sen.: oppidum undique, Sall.: alqm in urbe, Iustin.: adversarios locorum augustiis, Nep.: exercitum Caesaris multitudine suā, Auct. b. Afr.: urbem operibus, obsidione, Nep.: iudicium militibus, Quint.: im Passiv, claudi multitudine, locorum angustiis, Nep.: clausus armis senatus, Tac. -β) als t. t. der Jägerspr.: nemorum saltus, Verg.: colles indagine, Tibull.: valles insidiis, Tibull.: capreas leporemque rete, Ov. – c) übh. = umgeben, quae macerie ad villam venationis causā cluduntur, Varr.: forum porticibus tobernisque, Liv.: non portu illud oppidum

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clauditur, Cic.: urbs loci naturā terrā marique clauditur, Cic.: quasdam gemmas auro clusit, Plin.: neque congesta aut clusa humus, eingefriedigt, Tac. – 2) übtr.: a) übh.: aliud clausum in pectore, aliud in lingua promptum habere, Sall.: quod habere clausa non potuerit sua consilia de Verre, Cic. – b) als rhet. t. t., sententias numeris, Cic.: verba pedibus, Hor.: universa comprehensio et species clausa et terminata est, hat Schluß u. Abrundung, Cic. – ⇒ Parag. Infin. Präs. Pass. claudier, Ter. Andr. 573. – Über die Form clūdo (in der Zusammensetzung allein üblich) s. Georges, Lexik. d. lat. Wortf. S. 140 (unter 2. claudo).

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2. claudo, s. claudeo.

con-tineo, tinuī, tentum, ēre (con u. teneo), I) zusammenhalten, 1) verbindend, a) fest aneinanderhaltend zusammenhalten, α) eig., v. Pers., fracturam manu, Cels. – v. Lebl., sutura, si nimis rara est, non continet (verst. vulnus), Cels. – im Passiv, contineri, zusammengehalten werden = zusammenhalten (intrans.), in sich festhalten (intrans.), cum agger altiore aquā contineri non posset, Caes.: quas membranas natura firmas fecit, ut continerentur (zusammenhielten = nicht auseinander gingen od. sich nicht verschöben), Cic. – so auch im Aktiv intrans., per hortum utroque commeatus continet, hängt zusammen, Plaut. Stich. 452 R. – β) übtr., zusammenhalten = im Bestehen (im Gange) erhalten, aufrecht erhalten, haec quae vitam continent omnem, Cic.: sed haec ipsa virtus amicitiam et gignit et continet, Cic.: nec enim ulla res vehementius rem publicam continet quam fides, Cic. (u. so im Passiv id hominum genus, a quo uno et summa res publica et illa provincia maxime continetur, Cic.): c. Romanis (den R.) militarem disciplinam, Liv.: hostium imminens metus disciplinam veterem continebat, Flor. – im Passiv, ut ceterae naturae suis seminibus gignuntur, augescunt, continentur, sic etc., Cic.: vis multā exercitatione continenda est, Quint.

b) ungetrennt beieinander behaltend, zusammen-

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halten, zusammen- od. beieinander behalten, merces (Ggstz. partiri) Cic.: milites, Caes.: exercitum (Ggstz. in civitates dividere), Liv. 28, 2, 16 (versch. v. unten no. II, 3, b, β, αα [S. 1615] aus Cic. de imp. Pomp. 38): c. gregem voce (v. Kranichen), Plin.: maximos ferarum greges linea pennis distincta continet, Cic.: aqua in devexo fluit, in plano continetur et stagnat, Sen. – m. Advv. od. Praepp. (wo?), naves frumentumque ibi, Caes.: manipulos ad signa, Caes.: ceteros in armis, Liv.: legiones uno loco, Caes.

c) übh. in Verbindung, in Zusammenhang bringend zusammenhalten, verbinden, α) eig.: quod oppidum Cenabum pons fluminis Ligeris continebat, mit dem jenseitigen Ufer verband, Caes. b. G. 7, 11, 6. – gew. im Passiv, omnium legionum hiberna milibus passuum centum continebantur, standen auf einer Strecke von 100000 Schr. miteinander in Verbindung, Caes.: eorum (portuum) coniunctione pars oppidi, quae appellatur Insula, mari disiuncta angusto, ponte rursus adiungitur et continetur, Cic. – m. cum u. Abl. od. mit inter se, zB. eadem magni refert primordia cum quibus contineantur, in Verbindung stehen, Lucr.: si mundus globosus est ob eamque causam omnes eius partes undique aequabiles ipsae per se atque inter se continentur etc., zusammenhängen, Cic. – β) übtr.: omnes artes, quae ad humanitatem pertinent, habent quoddam commune et quasi cogna-

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tione quādam inter se continentur, Cic.: alcis hospitio contineri, durch G. mit jmd. verbunden sein, Nep.: ut non beneficiis mutuis, sed communi odio, quod erga regem susceperant, contineri viderentur, Nep.

2) umgebend, umschließend, a) zusammenhalten = umschlossen od. eingeschlossen halten, α) übh.: orbis extumus, arcens et continens ceteros, Cic.: ut (caro mollis) intestina non satis contineat, Cels.: vis caloris... hieme fit densior eamque ob causam calorem insitum in terris continet artius, Cic.: mundus, qui omnia complexu suo coërcet et continet, Cic.: Oceanus ponto quā continet orbem, Tibull. – im Passiv, contineri m. Abl. = v. einer Örtl. umschlossen-, eingeschlossen-, umgrenzt werden, eorum una pars continetur Garumnā flumine, Oceano, finibus Belgarum, Caes.: Gallia, quae saltu Pyrenaeo Alpibusque et monte Cebennā, fluminibus Rheno et Rhodano continetur, Suet.: qui vicus positus in valle altissimis montibus undique continetur, Caes.: ita angustis montibus (eng aneinander stoßenden Bergen) mare continebatur, ut etc., Caes.: mare ripis contentum insularum non longe distantibus, Mela. – β) hemmend, feindl. umschlossen halten, eingeschlossen halten, einschließen, gefangen halten, v. lebl. Subjj., quos vincula continuerant, non castra, Iustin. – v. Pers., beluas immanes saeptis, Cic.: ventos carcere (Ggstz. ventos emittere), Ov.: alqm vinculis Romae (Ggstz.

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solvere), Suet.: catulos per diem catenis (Ggstz. noctibus solvere), Col.: quam illum ut honorate sic secure continet! wie ehrenvoll u. wie sorglos hält er ihn gefangen! Vell.: claustris poenalibus contineri, Solin. 1, 124. – als milit. t. t., umlagernd, umstellend eingeschlossen halten, einschließen, Pompeium quam angustissime, Caes.: hostes proelio superatos, Caes.: equitatum Pompeianum ad Dyrrhachium, Caes.: contineri munitionibus, Caes.

b) umschließend in sich enthalten, in sich tragen od. haben, in sich begreifen, m. in u. Abl. od. m. bl. Abl., α) v. Pers.: spes illa, quam in alvo continebat, unter dem Herzen trug (v. einer Schwangeren), Cic.: so auch cum praegnans hunc ipsum Dionysum alvo contineret, Cic. – übtr., odium in omnes bonos conceptum iam diu c., Cic.: c. a deo immissum dolorem, non a se conceptum, Cic. – omnium rerum, quae ad dicendum pertinent, fontes animo ac memoriā c., Cic. – β) v. Lebl.: linea, quae centum continet pedes, Quint.: quattuor aeterna genitalia mundus continet, Ov.: si membranae eum (umorem) continuerunt, Cels.: gelum, quod (umor) continet in se, Lucr.: ut omnia, quae alantur et crescant, contineant in se vim caloris, Cic.: calor, qui aquis continetur, im W. enthalten ist, Cic. – übtr., αα) übh., enthalten, umfassen, tales res, quales hic liber continet, Cic.: primus liber (historiarum) continet res gestas regum populi

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Romani, Nep.: nonus liber, quo missa ad Achillem legatio continetur, Quint.: litterae tuae partim laeta partim tristia continent, Plin. ep.: quod tabulae continent, Quint.: tabellae senatus consultum continentes, Val. Max.: liber secreta civilium sacrorum continens, Val. Max.: Idus Martiae magnum mendum continent, Cic.: simplex causa est, quae absolutam in se continet unam quaestionem, Cic. – und mit folg. Acc. u. Infin. od. indir. Fragesatz, tertia epistula continebat esse tibi redditam orationem pro Clario, Plin. ep.: tabulae, quibus centum talenta dedisse Thebanos continebatur, Quint.: quando ipsos loqui deceat, quartus liber continet, Quint. – im Passiv, is liber, quo acceptae et expensae summae continebantur, Val. Max.: earum ipsarum rerum, de quibus agimus, prima institutio et quasi disciplina illo libro continetur, Cic.: epistulae ei redduntur, quibus bellum Agidis in Graecia, bellum Alexandri in Italia continebatur, Iustin.: facinus, in quo omnia nefaria contineri mihi atque inesse (begriffen u. enthalten zu sein) videntur, Cic.: diei brevitas conviviis, noctis longitudo stupris et flagitiis continebatur, wurde ausgefüllt mit usw., Cic. – ββ) etw. wesentlich in sich enthalten, etw. wesentlich bedingen, das Wesen einer Sache ausmachen, der wesentliche Inbegriff-, der Hauptpunkt (die Hauptsache) sein von od. bei etw. (s. Kühner Cic. Tusc. 3, 58. Giese Cic. de div. 1, 117. Matthiä Cic. Rosc.

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Am. 34), quod rem continet, quae rem continent, das, worauf es ankommt, das Wesentliche, Cic.: quod maxime rem causamque continet, Cic.: quae maxime rem continerent erant, die etwa die Hauptpunkte waren, Liv.: quod hunc locum continet, de quo agimus, Cic.: videamus de summo bono, quod continet philosophiam, welches der Hauptpunkt der Ph. ist, Cic.: haec quae vitam continent omnem, wesentlich bedingen, Cic. – im Passiv contineri alqā re od. in alqa re = wesentlich in etw. enthalten-, in od. unter etw. begriffen sein, wesentlich in etw. bestehen, durch etw. wesentlich bedingt sein, das Wesen einer Sache ausmachen, auf etw. sich wesentlich stützen, um etw. sich wesentlich drehen, non enim venis et nervis et ossibus continentur (di), Cic.: vita corpore et spiritu continetur, Cic.: status rei publicae maxime iudicatis rebus continetur, Cic.: exemplis continetur Aesopi genus, Phaedr.: artis pars magna continetur imitatione, Quint.: quo more caerimonia continetur, Caes.: Romanum foedus, quo nostra omnia continentur, Liv.: dolus malus in simulatione continetur, Cic. – v. Pers., bei etw. wesentlich beteiligt sein, qui viri hoc sermone continentur, Cic. de or. 3, 9.

II) behalten, 1) umfassend, umschließend halten, umfaßt halten, festhalten, a) im allg.: α) v. der Hand u. v. d. Pers., die mit der Hand umfaßt: acus ea veniat in sinistram, quam dextra continuit, Cels. –

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b) Empfangenes bei sich festhalten, behalten, α) v. der Hand: expeditius manus rapiunt, quam continent, Curt. – u. v. der Pers., mit der Hand, difficile est continere, quod capere non possis, Curt. – β) v. Magen: alvus arcet et continet, quod recipit, Cic.: alvus alias cibos non transmittit, alias non continet, Plin.: u. ohne Objekt, stomachus non od. parum continet, Cels. – im Passiv, si cibus non continetur od. non contineri potest (verst. alvo), Cels. – u. im üblen Sinne, quia quod infusum est (das Klistier) alvo continetur, Cels. – v. der Pers., im Magen, onerati mero non continent cibum vino redundante, Sen. – γ) v. Gedächtnis: velox mihi memoria erat ad continenda, quae acceperam, Sen. rhet.: nec disci audiendo pos-

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sunt omnia nec memoriā contineri, Lact. – δ) v. andern Ggstdn.: mollis lana, quae umorem intus contineat, Cels.: lapides rotundi, qui et contineant umorem et transmittant, Plin.: ut scrobes quam maxime accipiant aquam contineantque, Plin.: arida continent odorem diutius, Plin.

2) wo behalten = wo bleiben lassen, a) übh.: digitum ibi continere, donec etc., Cels.: aeger manus sub multa veste continere debet, Cels.: contineat sub lingua salem, donec liquescat, Plin.: semper manum intra pallium, Quint.: c. manus paenulis, Suet.: brachium veste, Quint.: aquam calidam ore, Cels.: oleum in ore, Plin. – übtr., jmd. in einer Tätigkeit, in einem Zustande bleiben lassen, in od. bei etw. erhalten, alqm in ea exercitatione, Cic.: se in suis perennibus studiis, Cic.: haud aequo animo se in secundo gradu, sich begnügen mit usw., Curt.: alqm in officio suo, Cornif. rhet.: Belgas in officio (Gehorsam), Caes.: civitates in amicitia, Hirt. b. G.: Galliam in pace, Hirt. b. G.: Hispanias in summa quiete, Vell.: alqm sub tutela sua, bevormunden, Sen. – u. als mediz. t. t., alqm in ieiunio, Cels.: quā ratione aeger continendus sit, wie zu halten, Cels.

b) wo verweilen lassen, sich aufhalten lassen, sich aufzuhalten nötigen, wie unser behalten, innen halten u. bl. halten, milites sub pellibus, Caes.: pecudem sub tecto, Col.: aegrum lucido loco

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od. obscuro loco, Cels.: exercitum castris, Caes.: partem iuniorum domi, Liv.: alqm domi atque intra privatos parietes, Quint.: deos parietibus inclusos, Cic.: indignationes domi, verbergen, Liv. 1, 10, 1. – v. lebl. Subjj., rogo ut veniat, quia me recens adhuc luctus limine contineret, Plin. ep.: u. (im Bilde) neque privata domus parietibus continere voces coniurationis tuae potest, Cic.: si sui iuris finibus matronas contineret pudor, Liv. – bes. oft se continere u. Passiv contineri, sich halten, sich aufhalten, sich innen halten, se in lectulo, Cels.: se in villa, Val. Max.: se in Italia, Vell.: se intra coloniam suam, Sen. rhet.: sese intra silvas in occulto, sich in den W. verborgen halten, Caes.: se hoc colle, Caes.: se tectis od. se alvo (v. Bienen), Plin.: se vallo adversus validiorem hostem, Liv.: se portis muroque, Liv.: se suo loco (Stellung), Caes.: sese ad hoc tempus his sedibus, Caes.: se ruri, Ter.: se consulto domi, Cic.: u. (im Bilde) se suarum rerum finibus, Cic.: u. (m. Ang. wie?) si Poenus sub angulo Alpium quietus se contineat, sich ruhig verhalte, Liv. 29, 5, 9. – im Passiv, contineri intra suum limen, sich auf das Haus beschränken, Liv.: contineri tecto ac parietibus, Cic., tectis ac tenebris, Cic.: absol., acies ad solis occasum continentur, bleiben stehen, bleiben in ihrer Stellung, Caes. b. c. 1, 83, 3. – dah. prägn., α) alqm continere, jmd. innen halten = im Hause zu bleiben nötigen, frigi-

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dus agricolam si quando continet imber, Verg. georg. 1, 259. – u. so bes. nachaug. oft se continere, sich innen halten (Ggstz. progredi), gew. = zu Hause bleiben, Cels. u. Suet.; selten = sich im Lager halten, zB. Iustin. 42, 4, 8. – β) alqd continere, etw. innen behalten = nicht mitteilen, teils Geschriebenes nicht herausgeben, reliquos libros, Cic. ad Att. 13, 21, 4. – teils Gewußtes bei sich od. für sich behalten, verschwiegen halten (Ggstz. proferre), quae vera audivi taceo atque contineo optime, Ter.: petimus ab Antonio, ut ea, quae continet neque adhuc protulit, explicet nobis, Cic. – teils einen Affekt zurückhalten, unterdrücken, verbergen = nicht äußern, nicht laut werden lassen m. dopp. Acc., alqd (gaudium, dolorem) tacitum c. od. c. non posse, Liv. 30, 17, 5 u. 40, 3, 5. c) wo aufbewahrt halten, aufbewahren, lacus (est) lacuna magna, ubi aqua contineri potest, Varro LL.: c. murenas ingentes in piscina, Sen.: privatā custodiā (Obhut) contineri (v. Schriften), Cic.: ebenso Vestae custodiā contineri (v. Palladium), Cic.: gens Aegyptiorum, quae plurimorum saeculorum et eventorum memoriam litteris continet, Cic.

3) innen halten, einhalten = anhalten, aufhalten, an sich halten, hemmen, deutsch auch bl. halten, a) eig.: α) Lebl.: aquam, Caes.: ora frenis spumantibus, Phaedr. – animam in dicendo, Cic.: spiritum, Cels.: spiritum diutius, Cels.: spiritum in natando, Plin.:

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gradum, Verg.: c. vocem, den Mund halten, Cic.: c. risum, Cic.: vix od. non c. lacrimas, Plaut. u. Aur. Vict.: non c. bilem, Sen. rhet.: diligentissime c. linguam, im Zaume halten, Cic.: so petulans non linguam, non manum continet, Sen.: unde manum iuventus metu deorum continuit? Hor. – β) leb. Wesen: suos continuit silentio (in St.), Liv.: artis frenis continet equos, Sen. poët. – v. leb. Subjj., an te tempestas continet? Plaut.: hos omnes flumina continebant, Caes.

b) übtr.: α) jmd. aufhalten, abhalten, enthalten, m. ab u. Abl., suos a proelio, Caes.: omni ope milites ab seditione, Liv.: de omnibus rebus c. se ab assentiendo, Cic.: contineo me ab exemplis, Cic. – m. folg. ne od. (bei vorhergeh. Negation) m. quin od. quominus u. Konj., contineo igitur me, ne incognito assentiar, Cic.: ut contineant milites, ne studio pugnandi longius progrediantur, Caes.: nec contineri Macedones poterant, quin cursu quoque ad hostem contenderent, Curt.: ut vix ab amicis, quominus occideret eum, contineretur, Curt. – β) im Zaume-, in Schranken halten, αα) politisch od. militärisch im Zaume-, im Gehorsam (in der Treue) halten od. erhalten, in der Zucht halten (s. Fabri Liv. 22, 22, 11), reliquos Macedonas, Liv.: nauticos in navibus, Liv.: exercitum (v. Feldherrn), Cic. de imp. Pomp. 38 (versch. von Liv. 28, 2, 16 oben no. I, 1, b). – v. lebl. Subjj., severitas imperii eos continuit, Liv.:

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metum continuisse ad eam diem Hispanorum animos, Liv. – m. Abl. (durch), c. Asiam modico exercitu, Curt.: proprio bello Tiburtes, Liv.: Etruscos non tam armis, quam iudiciorum terrore, Liv.: c. aequitate animi plebem, durch Zufriedenheit im Gehorsam halten = zufrieden erhalten, Caes.: c. fide populares, durch Tr. im G. h. = in der Tr. erhalten, Curt.: quae pauca (oppida) magis metu quam fide continebantur, Liv. – bei vorhergeh. Negation m. folg. quin u. Konj., qui (Bituriges) unius legionis hibernis contineri (abgehalten werden) non poterant, quin bellum pararent, Hirt. b. G. 8, 2. § 2. – ββ) moralisch im Zaume halten, bezähmen, zügeln, mäßigen, u. refl. continere se od. Passiv contineri medial = an sich halten, sich mäßigen, sich beherrschen, omnes cupiditates, Cic.: appetitiones od. appetitus animi (Ggstz. remittere, freien Lauf lassen), Cic.: se, Cic.: insolentiam suam modeste, Cic.: u. (v. lebl. Subjj.) quosdam continet metus, Quint.: ut metu contineatur audacia, Cic. – m. in u. Abl., in Scaevola c. dicta, Cic.: c. se in aliqua libidine (Ggstz. se in aliqua libidine effundere), Cic.: im Passiv, in illa cupiditate contineri, sich mäßigen (Ggstz. flagrare amentiā, inflammatā ferri libidine), Cic. – m. ab u. Abl., temeritatem ab omni lapsu, Cic.: a praesenti supplicio tuo continuit populus Romanus se et repressit, Cic. – bei vorhergeh. Negation m. folg. quin u. Konj., te non po-

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tuisse continere iracundiam tuam, quin nobis de morte Caesaris obiceres, Brut. et Cass. in Cic. ep.: non continentes (verst. se), quin protinus adicerent, Vell.: non posse milites contineri, quin etc., Caes.: vix me contineo, quin involem in capillum, Ter.: male me, quin vera faterer, continui, male, quin, ut oportuit, oscula ferrem, Ov.: im Passiv, contineri, quin complectar, non queo, Plaut. – im Passiv im Zshg. absol., equidem cupio (sc. reducere) et vix contineor (sc. quin reducam), Ter. Hec. 615.

dīmidius, a, um (dis u. medius), halb, nicht ganz (was weder ganz ist, noch war, wohl aber werden kann; vgl. Gell. 3, 14), luna, Vitr., Plin. u. Ov.: mensis, Col.: spatium, Nep.: pretium, Plin.: altitudo, crassitudo, Vitr.: crus, Iuven.: tonus, Halbton, Chalcid.: vectigal dimidium eius, quod regi pependissent, Liv. 45, 26, 14. – gew. dim. pars, die Hälfte, absol., Plaut. u. Cic., m. Genet., zB. terrae, Cic., exercitus, Sall. – v. Pers., frater meus dimidius maior est quam totus (scherzh.), Cic. fr.: dimidius patrum, dimidius plebis, halb zu den Patriziern, halb zum Bürgerstande gehörig, Liv. – subst., a) dīmidia, ae, f. (sc. pars), die Hälfte, latitudinis, Vitr.: ad dimidias (bis zur Hälfte) decoquere, Plin. – bes. der halbe Ertrag, Cic. Verr. 3, 117. Augustin. serm. 106, 4. – b) dīmidium, iī, n. (= dimidia pars), die Hälfte (von dem, was ganz war od. sein sollte), mille minus dimidium, Cato fr.: dim. dotis, Afran. fr.: pecuniae, Cic.: militum, Liv.: horai (= horae), Lucil. fr.: dimidium tributi, quam quod regibus ferre soliti erant, populo Romano pendĕre, Liv.: ut vix dimidium militum, quam quod acceperat, successori tradiderit, Liv. – dah. dimidio mit einem Kompar., um die Hälfte, carius, plus, stultior, Cic. – Sprichw., dimidium facti, qui coepit, habet, frisch gewagt ist halb gewonnen (griech. ἀρχώ το ἥμισυ παντός), Hor. ep. 1, 2, 40: u. so dimi-

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exiguus, a, um (exigo), knapp, I) quantitativ: 1) räumlich: a) dem Umfang nach, klein, schmal (Ggstz. amplus, immensus), castra, Caes.: aedificia, Hirt. b.G.: casa, Ov.: civitas, Caes.: cor, Cic.: femur, Hor.: pars terrae, Cic.: gyrus, Cic.: fines, Cic.: Compar., vicenariam exiguiorem faciunt diametro digiti semisse, Frontin. aqu. 32. – neutr. subst., exiguum, ī, n., ein Geringes, ein Weniges, campi, spatii, Liv. – b) der Länge nach, klein, kurz (Ggstz. longus), umbra, Hor.: corpus, Hor.: Calvus, Ov.: mus, ein winzige M., Verg. – 2) numerisch: a) der Zahl nach = klein, gering, unbedeutend, wenig (Ggstz. magnus, grandis), numerus oratorum, Cic.: copiae, Nep.: amicorum copiae, Cic.: haustus, Ov. – b) der Menge nach, gering, wenig, unbeträchtlich (Ggstz. magnus, multus), pulvis, Verg.: umor, Verg.; census, Hor.: u. unius anni pars, Cic.: Compar., exiguior aqua, Ulp. dig. 43, 12, 1. § 15: aridum si dabis exiguius dato, Col. arb. 28, 4: Superl., exiguissima legata, Plin. ep. 7, 24, 7: de fratrum populo exiguissima pars restat, Ov. her. 14, 115. – neutr. subst., exiguum, ī, n., etwas Weniges, eine Wenigkeit, aquae, Ov.: tritici, Curt.: naturalis vigoris, Liv.: vivitur exiguo (mit wenigem) melius, Claud.: exiguo faciles, Sil.: in hac (re) perquam exiguum sapio, Plin. ep.: exiguum tument vela, Lucan. – Compar., exiguius

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praestare, Ulp. dig. 30, 14, 1. – 3) zeitlich, klein, kurz (Ggstz. longus), tempus, Cic.: dies (Frist), Cic.: vita, Cic.: requies, Ov.: neutr. subst., exiguum temporis, eine kleine Spanne Zeit, Plin. ep.: exiguum (eine kleine Weile) dormire, Plin. ep.: exiguum contingis amanti, Ov.: exiguo post obitum eius, um ein kleines, kurze Zeit nach usw., Plin. – II) qualitativ: 1) der Beschaffenheit nach, a) hager, schmächtig, mager, corpus, Nep. Ages. 8, 1 – b) mager, gering, geringfügig, dürftig, spärlich, toga, Hor.: vestes, Spart.: dapes, Ov.: materia, Phaedr.: fructus, Cic.: laus, Cic. – Compar., nummi exiguiores, Ulp. dig. 32, 75: genus tribuendae muneris vacationis exiguius (Ggstz. plenius), Ulp. dig. 50, 5, 13. § 1: legatum exiguius (Ggstz. plenius), Paul. dig. 32, 46. – Superl. exiguissima opinio, Longin. in Augustin. epist. 234, 3. – neutr. subst., exiguum salutis, Sil. 4, 248. – 2) der Kraft nach, gering, schwach, unwirksam, unbedeutend (Ggstz. magnus), conamen, Ov.: vires, vox, Verg. u. Quint.: sonus, Ov.: elegi, Hor.: solacia luctus, Verg. – Compar., exiguior vox (Ggstz. validior), Ulp. dig. 29, 5, 1. § 27. – m. Genet., abundans corporis exiguusque animi, Claud. in Eutr. 2, 380. – subst., exiguo (um ein geringes, nur leise) tangere oras ulceris, Scrib. Larg. 240.

māgnus, a, um (altind. mahánt-, griech. μέγας, gotisch mikils, ahd. mihhil), Compar. māior, us, Superl. māximus (māxumus), a, um, groß (Ggstz. parvus, parvulus, exiguus, minutus, minusculus), I) eig.: 1) von räuml. Größe, a) groß = weit, hoch, lang, insula, Cic.: mare (vgl. no. b), Sall.: maximum flumen, Curt. – navis magna (Ggstz. parva), Hor.: m. et pulchra domus, Cic.: oppidum maximum, Caes. – litterae (Buchstaben) maximae, Cic.: epistula maxima (Ggstz. minuscula, Cic. – quercus, hohe, Enn.: mons, Catull.: acervus, Cic. u. Verg. – magni membrorum artus, magna ossa, Verg.: magni crines, Spart.: capillus et barba magna, Varro: capillatior quam ante et barbā maiore, Cic.: maximā barbā et capillo, Cic. – nequam et m. homo, langer Mensch (Kerl), Lucil. 1221; vgl. im Doppelsinne qui scribis Priami proelia, m. homo es, Mart.: magnum me faciam, ich will mich groß machen, mich strecken, Plaut.: elephanti flumen transituri minimos antemittunt, ne maiorum ingressu alveum atterant, Solin. – m. Infin., maior videri, stattlicher anzuschauen (= ein höheres Wesen), Verg. Aen. 6, 49. – subst., incensae urbis in maius restitutio, Wiederaufbau u. Vergrößerung, Iustin.: reficere in melius et in maius, verbessern (verschönern) u. vergrößern, Plin. ep. – b) insbes., von angeschwollenen Gewässern, groß = hoch, hochgehend, aquae

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magnae bis eo anno fuerunt, Liv.: mare (μεγάλη θάλαττα), Lucr. u. Sall. (vgl. oben no. a). – magnus fluens Nilus, Verg. georg. 3, 28: u. so prout ille (Nilus) magnus influxit aut parcior, Sen. nat. qu. 4, 2, 2 (vgl. Thuc. 2, 5, 2 ὁ Ἀσωπος ποταμος εῤῥύη μέγας).

2) v. numerischer Größe, a) = der Zahl, Menge, numerischen Stärke, dem Gewichte nach groß, bedeutend beträchtlich, bei Kollektiven auch = viel, zahlreich, frumenti magnus, maximus numerus, Caes.u. Cic., quam maximus numerus, Caes.: copia pabuli, Caes.: pecunia, Nep.: maiore pecuniā opus erat, Liv.: pecunia mutua, Cic.: magnas pecunias in provincia collocatas habere, Cic.: maximum pondus auri, magnum numerum frumenti, vim mellis maximam exportasse, Cic. – multitudo peditatus, Caes.: populus, Verg. u. Plin. ep.: magno cum comitatu, Caes.: parato magno potius quam ingenti exercitu, Vopisc.: maior frequentiorque legatio, Liv.: pars, ein großer Teil, d.i. sehr viele, Cic.: magnā parte veterum militum dimissā, Liv.: maior pars, Caes.: maxima pars hominum, Hor.: dah. magnā parte, großenteils, maximā parte, größtenteils, Sall. u. Liv.: so auch magnam u. maximam partem, Cic. u. Caes. – Genet. subst., magni, um vieles, viel, magni refert, Lucr.: magni interest, Cic. – b) v. numerischen Werte = hoch, bedeutend, erheblich, beträchtlich, kostspielig, kostbar, ornatus muliebris pretii maioris,

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Cic.: operibus pretium maius invenire, Phaedr.: hominem maximi pretii esse, viel Geld wert, d.i. sehr brauchbar, Ter. – quaestus magnus et evidens (Ggstz. qu. minimus et sordidus), Auct. b. Alex.: magna munera et maiora promissa, Sall.: cultus maior censu, Hor.: cultus maximi, Flor. – dah. der Abl. u. Genet. magno u. magni als Bestimmung des Wertes, hoch, teuer (sehr selten maioris, höher, teuerer, maximi, am höchsten, sehr hoch, wofür gew. pluris u. plurimi stehen), magno emere, vendere, conducere, Cic.: magno constare, Plin. ep.: magno (sc. constat) hospitium miserabile, Iuven.: magno illi stetit victoria, übtr. = kam ihm teuer zu stehen, kostete viel Blut, Liv.: multo maioris alapae mecum veneunt, Phaedr. – v. inneren Werte, magni aestimare, α) = hochschätzen, Cic.: häufiger magno aestimare, Cic. u.a. β) = für von hohem Werte-, für wichtig halten, Flor.: so auch magni existimare, Nep.: magni, maximi facere, Komik., Cic. u.a. – magni esse, α) = viel gelten, apud alqm, Cic. β) von hohem Werte-, von Wichtigkeit sein, Nep. 3) v. dynamischer Größe, a) v. Naturkräften, stark, heftig, vis solis, Lucr.: ventus, Plaut.: flatus (ventorum) maiore illati pondere incursuque, Plin. – b) v. Eindrücken auf das Gehör, groß = stark, laut, vox (Ggstz. parva, schwache), Cic.: clamor, Cic.: stridor, murmur, Verg.: maior sonus, Curt. – poet. neutr. Sing. adverb., magnum

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clamare, laut rufen, Plaut.: magnum sonare, Mela: magna sonare, Acc. fr.: exclamare maius, Cic. Tusc. 2, 56: maximum exclamare, Plaut.

II) übtr.: A) v. der Größe der Zeit: 1) von der Zeitdauer, groß, beträchtlich (an Zahl der Tage; Ggstz. brevis) = lang, annus, Verg.: anni, Lucr.: menses, Verg. – insbes., annus, das große Weltjahr, Cic. de nat. deor. 2, 51 u. Cic. fr. b. Tac. dial. 16. – magno tempore, in langer Zeit, Petron. u. Iustin.: magno post tempore, nach langer Zeit, Iustin.

2) vom früheren, höheren Alter: a) früh, hoch, cum esset magno natu, von hohem Alter, bejahrt, Nep.: magno natu principes, Liv.: filius maximo natu, Nep.- maior patria, das frühere, ältere Vaterland, von Karthago = die Mutterstadt, Curt. 4, 3 (15), 22. – b) insbes., v. Pers., im Compar. u. Superl., mit u. ohne natu od. annis, der ältere, der älteste, α) v. Lebensalter: maior natu (Ggstz. aequalis, gleichalterig), Suet.: natu maior frater, Cic.: maximus natu e filiis, Liv.: una e multis, maxima natu, Pyrgo, Verg.: ebenso maior, maximus aevo, Ov. – virgo minor quam annos sex, maior quam annos decem nata, Gell.: liberi maiores iam quindecim annos nati, Liv.: u. ohne quam annos natus maior quadraginta, Cic.: non maior quinquaginta annis, Liv.: ne sint (feminae equi) minores trimae, maiores decem annorum, Varro: obsides non minores octonum denum annorum, neu

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maiores quinum quadragenum, Liv. Vgl. Weißenb. Liv. 38, 38, 15. – annos nata est sedecim, non maior, nicht älter, nicht drüber, Ter. – versch. bei Angabe des Unterschieds des Alters, biennio quam nos fortasse maior, Cic. – absol., frater maior, Ter.: ex duobus filiis maior, Caes.: Ser. Sulpicio maior (filia), minor Licinio Stoloni (nupta) erat, Liv.: maior Neronum, Hor.: sororum maxima, Ov.: maior erus, der alte Herr, Hausherr, der Alte (Ggstz. minor e.), Plaut.: Gelo maximus stirpis, Liv.: virgo Vestalis maxima u. virgo maxima, s. Vestalis u. virgo. – subst., maior, f., eine Ältere, ut nubere vellet maior iuniori (einen Jüngeren), Apul. apol. 27. – maiores natu, die älteren Leute, die Alten, Cic. u.a., u. insbes., die Alten = der Senat, Liv. – auch bl. maiores = die Älteren, die Alten, Hor.: u. die Erwachsenen (Ggstz. pueri), Varro LL. 9, 16. – als jurist. t. t., maior, mündig, der Mündige (Ggstz. minor), ICt. – bei Ausdrücken der Verwandtschaft bezeichnet magnus den vierten, maior den fünften u. maximus den sechsten Grad, wie avunculus magnus, maior, maximus, s. avunculus, amita u. dgl. – β) v. Zeitalter: Cyrus maior, Lact. 4, 5, 7: quaerere, uter maior aetate fuerit, Homerus an Hesiodus, non magis ad rem pertinet quam scire, cum minor Hecuba fuerit quam Helena, quare tam male tulerit aetatem, Sen. ep. 88, 6. – bes. subst., maiores, die Vorfahren, Ahnen, Cic. u.a.: u. dass.

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maiores natu, Nep.: maiores auch von einem Vorfahren, Ahnen, Varro r. r. (v. Stolo) u. Cic. (v. Appius).

B) von Umfang, Bedeutung, Geltung, Wichtigkeit menschlicher Verhältnisse aller Art = groß, bedeutend, beträchtlich, ansehnlich, wichtig, oft wie bedeutend, mit dem Nbbegr. des Schwierigen, Gefahrvollen (Ggstz. parvus), 1) im allg.: magni u. maximi ludi, die großen, die ältesten Spiele in Rom, jährlich am 7. Sept. gefeiert, Cic. – mercatura, ein großer, ausgebreiteter Handel (Ggstz. m. tenuis), Cic.: magna et ampla negotia, Cic.: magnae parvaeque res (Taten), Enn.: magnae res (Angelegenheiten), Tac.: maiores res appetere, nach höheren Dingen streben, Nep. – testimonium, ein ansehnliches, ehrenvolles, Cic.: causa, Cic.: magnae et graves causae, Plin. ep.: iudicium, Cic.: magno casu accĭdit, durch einen wichtigen Umstand, besonderen Glücksfall, Caes.: ebenso magnae fuit fortunae, Caes.: aber saepe parvis momentis magni casus intercedunt, bedeutende Wechselfälle des Glücks, Caes.: ebenso res magnum habet casum (Risiko), Planc. in Cic. ep. – m. dem Nbbgr. des Schwierigen, magnum opus et arduum, Cic.; vgl. id magnum et arduum est, Cic.; u. quod eo maius est illi (schwieriger für ihn), Cic.: magnum quoddam est onus atque munus, Cic.: bellum m. atque difficile, m. et atrox, Cic. u. Sall. – v. wichtigen u. gefahrvollen Zeiten, dringend, rei publicae ma-

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gnum aliquod tempus, Cic.: maxima rei publicae tempora, die Zeiten der dringendsten Gefahr, griech. μέγιστοι καιροί, Cic. – magnum est (es ist eine große, schwierige Aufgabe, es gehört viel dazu) m. Infin., zB. magnum est efficere, ut quis intellegat, quid sit illud verum, Cic. Acad. 1, 7: eicere nos magnum fuit, excludere facile est, Cic. ep. 14, 3, 2: so auch quod si magnum putarem caducum deicere, Apul. apol. 35. p. 56, 1 Kr. – m. 2. Supin., haud magna memoratu res est, Liv. 38, 29, 3. – parenthet., quod maius est, was noch mehr sagen will, Cic.: ebenso quod maximum est, Plaut. – neutr. pl. subst., magna curant di, parva neglegunt, Cic.: ut alia magna et egregia tua omittam, Sall.: u. im Compar., multo maiora et meliora fecit, Cic.: maiora concupiscere, zu hoch hinauswollen, Nep.: maiora moliri in urbe, Suet.: im Superl., illa maxima atque amplissima, Cic. – poet v. Jahre u. den Jahreszeiten, bedeutend dem Ertrage nach, sehr fruchtbar, annus, Stat. u. Lucan.: maior autumnus, Mart.

2) v. der Größe der menschl. Stellung, a) der Macht, dem Vermögen nach groß, hochstehend, angesehen, mächtig, reich, maior invidiā, über den Neid erhaben, Hor.: maior reprensis, über die Getadelten erhaben, Hor. – v. mächtigen Personen u. Staaten, propter summam nobilitatem et singularem potentiam magnus erat, Cic.: potentior et maior, im

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Besitz von mehr Macht u. Ansehen, Nep.: m. adiutor, Hor.: Iuppiter, manus Iovis, Hor.: Iuppiter optimus maximus (der allmächtige), Cic.: praetor maximus (in den ältesten Zeiten = Diktator), Liv.: sacerdos, der ehrwürdige, Verg.: tellure marique magnus, Hor.: homo summae potentiae et magnae cognationis, Caes.: civitas magna atque opulenta, oppidum m. atque valens, Sall.: maximam hanc rem (Staat) fecerunt, Liv. – v. Vornehmen u. Reichen, magni pueri magnis e centurionibus orti, Hor.: m. pater, eques, Hor. – subst., nulla aut magno aut parvo fuga leti, Hor.: cum magnis vixisse, Hor.: maiorum fames, Hor.: Ggstz., adversus minores humanitas, adversus maiores reverentia, Sen.: maximi imique, die Höchsten u. Niedrigsten, Sen. – b) dem Talente, der Geschicklichkeit, den Verdiensten nach, α) groß, angesehen, achtungswert, geschickt u. dgl., o magnum hominem! Cic.: nemo vir magnus sine aliquo afflatu divino umquam fuit, Cic.: magnus hoc bello Themistocles fuit, nec minor in pace, Nep.: oft verb. magnus et clarus, clarus et magnus, Cic. u.a. (s. Fabri Sall. Cat. 53, 2). – als Beiname, Pompeius Magnus, Alexander Magnus, Cic. u.a.: Plur., Magnos et Felices et Augustos diximus, wir haben den einen den Großen, den anderen den Glücklichen, den dritten den Erlauchten genannt, Sen. de clem. 1, 14, 2. – β) im üblen Sinne, groß in Verschlagenheit usw., durch-

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trieben, fur, Cic.: nebulo, Ter. – prägn. = zu groß, Alexander orbi (für den Erdkreis) magnus est, Alexandro orbis angustus (zu eng), Sen. suas. 1, 3.

3) von intensiver Stärke: a) menschlicher Lebens- und Gemütszustände, groß, gewaltig, auffallend, schwer, stark, heftig, arg, labor, Hor.: morbus, Cels.: morbus maior, die größere, gewaltigere (v. der Epilepsie), Cels. (vgl. Apul. apol. 50): periculum, Caes.: gratia, Caes. (vgl. gratia). – infamia, Cic.: opprobrium, Hor.: magno sit animo (Mut), Caes.; vgl. corpore maior spiritus (Mut) et incessus, Hor.: virtus, Caes.: multo maior alacritas studiumque pugnandi, Caes.: maiore eloquentiā, gravitate, studio, contentione, Cic. – spes, Nep.: gaudium, Sall.: voluptas, Ter.: dolor, Caes. – vitium, peccatum, Hor.: adulteria, inimicitiae, auffallende, Aufsehen erregende, Tac. (s. Heräus Tac. hist. 1, 2, 11): maius malum est hoc, Sen. – Compar. subst., nihil maius minari posse, quam etc., nichts Schlimmeres, Sen. – bes. in maius, ins zu Große = größer, als es ist, als nötig ist, vergrößernd, übertrieben, übermäßig, bei den Verben extollere (verbis), celebrare, componere u.a., b. Sall., Liv., Hor. u.a. (s. Fabri Sall. Iug. 73, 5 u. Liv. 21, 32, 7): so auch in maius ferri, nuntiari, vergrößert, übertrieben werden, Liv. u. Tac.: in maius credi, für schlimmer, ärger gehalten werden, Tac.: in maius augere desiderium, Iustin. – b) des Ausdrucks, stark,

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gewaltig, übertrieben, verba magna, quae rei augendae causā conquirantur, Liv.: magnis sermonibus res secundas celebrare, d.i. viel Redens und Aufhebens machen von usw., Liv.: magnae minae, Cic.: magna illa consulum imperia, strenge, Sall.

4) von der Größe der Gesinnung, der Gemüts- und Denkart, a) im guten Sinne, groß, stark, hoch, hochherzig, fuit et animo magno et corpore, Nep.: animo magno fortique sis, Cic.: quemquam stabili et firmo et magno animo (quem fortem virum dicimus) effici posse, Cic.; vgl. mens maior humanā, Sil.: magno pectore praesentit curas, Verg. – u. übtr., von der Person selbst, groß, hochherzig, edel, amice magne, Cur. in Cic. ep.: animo magnus, maior imperio, Plin.: quo quis maior, magis est placabilis irae, et faciles motus mens generosa capit, Ov.: vgl. nihil magno et praeclaro viro dignius placabilitate, Cic. – b) im üblen Sinne, hochfahrend, stolz, omnibus nobis ut dant res sese, ita magni atque humiles sumus, Ter. – u. in bezug auf die Rede, groß = hochfahrend, großprahlerisch, lingua (wie μεγάλη γλῶσσα), Hor.: magna verba (wie μεγάλοι λόγοι), Verg., Sen. u.a.: maxima verba, Prop. – dixerat ille aliquid magnum, hatte große Reden geführt, sehr geprahlt, Verg. – ebenso subst., magna loqui, magna magnifice loqui (wie μέγα εἰπειν, μέγα μυθεισθαι, μεγάλα λέγειν), Ov. u. Tibull.; vgl. Passerat. Prop. 2, 19, 71.

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5) von der Größe der Geistesanlagen, groß, hoch, erhaben, ingenium, Cic.: indoles, Hor., Stat. u.a. (s. Markl. Stat. silv. 3, 3, 68. p. 279 ed. Dresd.).

prior, neutr. prius, Genet. priōris, Superl. prīmus, a, um (vom veralteten prīs, wov. auch pridem, pridie, pristinus), I) Compar. prior, prius, A) eig., der erstere, vordere von zweien (Ggstz. posterior), priores pedes, Nep. u.a.: pars capitis, Vorderkopf (Ggstz. aversa pars capitis, Hinterkopf), Plin. – B) übtr.: 1) der Zeit, der Ordnung od. dem Grade nach, eher, früher, der erste, erstere von zweien (Ggstz. posterior), comitia, Cic.: consul anni prioris, Liv.: qui prior occupaverit, eher oder zuerst usw., Caes.: und so prior praevenit, praegreditur, Liv. (s. Fabri u. Weißenb. Liv. 21, 20, 8): priori posterius iungitur, das letztere mit dem ersteren, Cic.: priore loco dicere, zuerst, Cic.: priore aestate, im vorigen Sommer, Cic.: vinum, vorjähriger Wein, Plin.: liber, das vorhergehende Buch, Colum.: Dionysius prior, der ältere, Nep.: Agrippinae sobrinā prior, um einen Grad näher, Tac.: collegae longe aetate priores, weit ältere, Gell.: dah. priores, die vorher gelebt haben, die Vorfahren, Verg.; bei Späteren priores häufig die Altvorderen im Freistaat, sowie prius aevum die Vorzeit, die Zeit des Freistaates bis zur Schlacht bei Aktium; ebenso prior populus, die in dieser Zeit lebenden Römer, Plin. ep. u. Tac. – 2) dem Range, Vorzuge nach, der erstere, vorzüglichere, vortrefflichere, hauptsächlichere, Ter., Hor. u. Liv.: verb. prior poti-

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orque, z.B. res nulla prior potiorque visa est, de qua ad senatum referrent, Liv.: u. nihil prius nec potius est quam m. folg. Infin., nihil prius nec potius visum est quam regis ipsius de singulis responsa accipere, Liv.: quanto prius potiusque est Philippum nobis coniungere quam hos, Liv. (vgl. Weißenb. Liv. 36, 7, 6). – prius est m. folg. ut u. Konj., Tert. de idol. 2: naturā prius est, ut etc., Sen. de ben. 5, 8, 1.

II) Superl. prīmus (in Inschr. auch preimus) a, um, der erste (Ggstz. postremus), A) dem Orte nach der erste, vorderste, a) adi.: pars aedium, Nep. u. Sen.: dentes, die Vorderzähne, Plin. – partit., agmen, Vortrab, Caes. u.a.: provincia, der vorderste Teil der Pr., Cic.: Persis, Vorderpersien, Curt.: Eburonum fines, das Grenzgebiet, Caes.: margo ripae, die äußerste Uferwand, Curt.: prima (lingua) ranis cohaeret, intima absoluta a gutture, die Z. ist bei den Fr. vorn angewachsen, hinten am Gaumen ist sie frei, Plin.: sprichw., primis, ut dicitur, labris gustasse physiologiam, die Ph. mit den Lippen nur berührt haben (= sich mit der Ph. nur oberflächlich beschäftigt haben), Cic. de nat. deor. 1, 20. – b) subst.: primi, die Vordersten (Ggstz. ultimi, postremi, extremi), Caes. b. G. 5, 43, 5 u. b. c. 2, 34, 5. Sall. Iug. 45, 2; 46, 7; 100, 2: primi hostium, die Vorposten der F., Vell. 2, 110, 1: prima (neutr. pl.), das Vordertreffen, Curt. 4, 13 (50), 32: provolare in primum (nach

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vorn), Liv. 2, 20, 10; 2, 46, 7; 3, 62, 8: nisi secunda acies (Treffen) in primum (in das erste Treffen) successisset, Liv. 10, 14, 17: equites in primo (im Vortrab) late ire iubet, Sall. Iug. 68, 4: prima legio et sinistra ala in primo (im Vordertreffen) instructae, Liv. 25, 21, 6. – B) übtr.: 1) der Ordnung od. der Zeit nach der erste, a) adi.: primus dicitur obligavisse, zuerst, Cic.: primae litterae, postremae etc., Cic.: Idus primae, die ersten, nächstfolgenden, Cic.: primum initium, Liv. – primus quisque, prima quaeque, primum quidque, s. quisque. – primus luendae poenae fuit, er mußte zuerst büßen, Tac. ann. 6, 1. – m. folg. Infin., primus inire manus, postremus ponere Martem, Sil. 1, 160. – Insbes., α) bei Dichtern und in der nachciceron. Prosa primus oft statt des Adv. primum, z.B. vix prima inceperat aestas, Verg.: spolia, quae prima opima appellata, zuerst, Liv.: primi geniti (porci), die zuerst geborenen, Plin. 11, 234: bes. nach cum, ut etc., z.B. cum prima examina ducunt = cum primum, sobald als, Verg.: ut primis plantis institerat = ut primum, sobald als, Verg. – β) partitiv, primā luce, mit Anbruch des Tages, Curt.: u. so primā vesperā, Curt.: primā nocte, Caes. u. Nep.: primo anno, am Anfang des J., Colum.: primo mense, am Anfang des M., Verg.: primus tumultus, der Anfang des Lärmens, Verg. – b) subst.: α) prīma, ae, f. (sc. hora), die erste Stunde, intra primam noctis,

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quotus, a, um (quot), der wievielste, quotus erit iste denarius, qui non sit ferendus? Cic.: quota hora est? wieviel Uhr ist es? Hor.: quotā (Abl. sc. horā)? um wieviel Uhr? Hor.: quoto anno, Cic. u. Sen.: quotus esse velis, rescribe, wie zahlreich du zu kommen gedenkst (Wieland), wieviel Gesellschafter od. Mitgäste du haben willst, Hor. ep. 1, 5, 30: quota pars laudis, der wievielste, ein sehr kleiner, Ov.: quota pars nostri, wie wenige von uns, Curt.: korresp. m. totus (der sovielste), detrahitur summae tota pars, quota demitur etc., Manil. 3, 420. – verb. quotus quisque, α) zur Bezeichnung ber Allgemeinheit, quoto quoque loco libebit, wo es nur belieben wird, Cornif. rhet. – β) zur Bezeichnung der geringen Anzahl, wie viele = wie wenige, wenig, quotus enim quisque disertus? Cic.: quota quaeque domus usque ad exitum omnibus partibus suis constitit? Sen.: formā quota quaeque superbit? Ov.: quoto cuique lorica est? Curt.: quotus quisque reliquus (wie wenige waren noch übrig), qui rem publicam vidisset? Tac.

sinister, tra, trum, I) link, zur linken Seite od. Hand befindlich (Ggstz. dexter), A) adi.: manus, Nep.: oculus, Plin. ep.: calceus, Suet.: ripa, Hor.: pars, Caes. – Compar. sinistorior, us (Ggstz. dexterior, us), sinisterior funalis equus, Suet.: rota, Ov.: pars, Varro: dexterius et sinisterius cornu, Galba in Cic. ep. – Superl. sinistimus, a, um (Ggstz. dextimus), nach Fest. 339 (a), 1. Prisc. 3, 19 u. 22. – B) subst.: 1) sinistra, ae, f., a) die linke Hand, die Linke (Ggstz. dextra), Caes. u.a. – beim Stehlen benutzt, natae ad furta sinistrae, Ov.: dah. v. den Gehilfen eines Diebes, Porci et Socration, duae sinistrae Pisonis, Catull. – b) die linke Seite, supra infra, dextra sinistrā, Cic.: ad sinistram, Plaut.: sub sinistrā, Caes.: miles dextrā ac sinstrā muro tectus, Caes. – sinistrā m. Acc., links an, dextrā sinistrāque ianuam, C. Aelius Gallus bei Gell. 16, 5, 3: dextrā ac sinistrā fornicem, Fest. 206 (b), 18. – 2) sinistrum, ī, n., die linke Seite, nur mit Präpos., zB. a sinistro, Quint.: in sinistrum, Quint.: in sinistro, Tac. – 3) sinistrī, ōrum, m., der linke Flügel der Schlachtreihe (Ggstz. dextra pars), Liv. 9, 27, 9. – II) übtr.: 1) linkisch, verkehrt, ungeschickt, mores, Verg.: liberalitas, Catull.: instituta, Tac.: natura, Curt.: interpretatio, Tac. – 2) unglücklich, widerwärtig, signa, Ov.: pugna, Prop.: fama, übler Leumund, Iuven. (u. so ut laeta [günstiger] apud pleros-

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que, ita apud quosdam sinistra fama, Tac.: eo de homine sinistra in urbe fama, Tac.): aber sinistra ex urbe fama, üble Gerüchte aus der St., Tac.: notus pecori sinister, Verg.: sinistro pede proficisci, zur unglücklichen Stunde, Apul.: m. Genet., fidei sinister, der nicht Wort hält, treulos, Sil. 1, 56. – subst., sinistrum, ī, n., das Böse, Arge, si qua (matrona) est studiosa sinistri, Ov. trist. 2, 257. – 3) als t.t. der Religionssprache: a) bei den Römern, deren Augen, nach Süden gewandt, die östliche Seite zur Linken hatten = glücklich, glückliche Anzeigen gebend, avis, Plaut.: cornix, Verg.: tonitrus, Ov.; vgl. Cic. de div. 2, 74 u. 82. – b) bei den Griechen, die nach Norden gewandt, die östliche Seite zur Rechten hatten = unglücklich, omen, Ov.: avibus sinistris, zur unglücklichen Stunde, Ov. – u. so auch zuw. bei Römern, auspicia, Val. Max.: fulmen, Cic. Phil. 2, 99. – ⇒ Vulg. Nbf. senesterior, Corp. inscr. Lat. 14, 1473.

1. sto, stetī, statum, stātūrus, āre (Stamm sta, wie in εστη-κα, εστάναι, ahd. stân), stehen, I) im Ggstz. zum Sitzen usw., im weiteren Sinne = stehend verweilen, sich aufhalten, sich befinden, A) eig.: 1) im allg.: a) v. leb. Wesen: stant ambo, non sedent, Plaut.: cum virgo staret et Caecilia in sella sederet, Cic.: stans ac rectus homo (Ggstz. humilis et ad terram more quadrupedum abiectus), Liv.: stantes (im Stehen, sich erhoben habend) plaudebant, Cic. (vgl. stantia in plausum tota theatra, Prop.): Minerva, quae est in Parthenone stans (in stehender Stellung), Plin.: stando (im Stehen) mingens, Amm.: cui standi (sich auf den Füßen zu erhalten) vulnera vires non dederant, Ov.: stans pede in uno, Hor.: stante alqo, in jmds. Gegenwart, Cic. u. Tac.: me stante, Cic.: stantibus legatis, in Gegenwart d.G., Liv. – ad ianuam, ad curiam, Cic.: ad fores, Curt.: ante aedes, Plaut.: post aulaea, Curt.: in atriis, Plaut.: in conspectu exercitus, Curt.: cum gladiis in conspectu senatus, Cic.: circum senatum (v. Bürgern usw.), Cic.: propter in occulto, Cic.: stat super (oben darauf, auf dem Wagen), Ov.: hic foris, Plaut.: hinc procul, Ter.: qui proximi steterant, Caes. – Pass. impers., quid agitur? statur! Plaut. u. Ter. – b) v. lebl. Subjj.: stabat in his (lucis) ingens quercus, Ov.: in cava nullus stet tibi nare pilus, Ov.: stant saxa antro, Ov.: stramenta stantia in segete re-

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linquit, ut postea subsecentur, Varro. – v. Altären u. Bildsäulen, stabant sine ignibus arae, Ov.: quorum statuae steterunt in rostris, Cic.: signa stant ad impluvium, Cic.: stabat commune sepulcrum, Hor.: aëneus (als eherne Bildsäule) ut stes, Hor.: levi de marmore tota stabis, wirst dastehen (als Bildsäule) aus M., Verg. – v. Webstuhle und dem Gewebe, aufrecht stehend, stans tela, Ov. met. 4, 275: stantes telae, Ov. fast. 3, 819.

2) insbes.: a) als milit. t.t. – stehen, aufgestellt sein, laxius, Curt.: in ulteriore ripa, Curt.: ante signa, Curt.: pro porta (v. Posten), Liv.: extra teli iactum, Liv.: sub armis, Auct. b. Afr.: in acie, Auct. b. Hisp.: haud impari acie, Liv.: pars aciei stetit sub hoste (tiefer als der F.), Auct. b. Afr.: quotā parte virium suarum ibi dimicavit Antiochus? In Asia totius Asiae steterunt vires, Liv.: stetimus tela aspera contra contulimusque manus, Verg.: Bactriani armati stabant, Curt.: Eumenes rex Attalusque cum omni manu sua ab tergo inter postremam aciem ac vallum steterunt, Liv. – b) v. Dienern, dastehen, aufwarten, pueri eximiā facie stabant, C. Gracch. fr.: sto exspectans, si quid mihi imperent, Ter.: ad cyathum et vinum, Suet.: ad pedes, Suet. – c) v. Buhldirnen = prostare, feilstehen, meritoria (sc. scorta) intra urbem stare vetuit, Vopisc. Tac. 10, 2: stat meretrix certo cuivis mercabilis aere, Ov. am. 1, 10, 21: olente in fornice stans,

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Hor. sat. 1, 2, 30: quod steterat multis in carcere fornicis annis, Iuven. 10, 239; vgl. 11, 172. – d) von Gebäuden = fertig dastehen, erbaut sein, iam stabant Thebae, Ov.: stet Capitolium fulgens, Hor.: aedificant muros. Stabat opus, Ov.: iam stare ratem, Val. Flacc. – e) v. Schiffen u. Schiffern, wo liegen, vor Anker liegen, stant litore puppes, Verg.: lembi, qui in Strymone stabant, Liv.: stabat classis in salo ad Leptim, Auct. b. Afr.: classe divisā pars in salo ad ostium portus in ancoris stetit, Liv.: intra sexagesimum diem quam caesa silva erat centum sexaginta navium classis in ancoris stetit, Flor.: nox ea, quā propter vim tempestatis stare ad ancoram in salo Romana classis non posset, Liv. – f) starrend stehen, emporstehen, -starren, -ragen, steteruntque comae, Verg. u. Ov.: crines fulti pulvere, Stat.: saetae, cristae, Ov.: stant mammae, Plin. – g) mit Abl. = von etwas starren, strotzen, vollstehen, -sein, cupressi stant rectis foliis, Enn. fr.: stat ager sentibus, Caecil. com. fr.: stat nive candidum Soracte, Hor.: pulvere caelum stare, Verg.: stant lumina flammā, Verg.

B) bildl.: 1) im allg.: in fastigio eloquentiae, Quint.: ante oculos stat ille meos, Ov.: pericula stant circum alqm, Verg.

2) auf jmds. Seite stehen, -sein, ihm anhangen, beistehen, od. das Gegenteil, gegen jmd. stehen, jmds. Gegner sein, a) mit ab u. Abl.: stare a se potius

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quam ab adversariis, Cic.: ab iis stare, Nep.: a senatu et a bonorum causa stare, Cic. – b) mit cum u. Abl.: vobiscum me stetisse dicebat, Cic.: quae (pars) cum Romanis stabat, Liv.: cum di prope cum Hannibale starent, Liv.: capita nominis Latini stare ac sentire cum rege videbant, Liv.: übtr., fortuna cum barbaris stabat, Liv.: victoria stat tecum, Ov. – c) m. pro u. Abl.: pro nobis, Ov.: pro Iuba atque Afris, Quint.: pro Pompei partibus, id est pro re publica, Vell.: pro meliore causa, Curt.: pro isdem partibus, Sen.: ruina partium, pro quibus steterat, Liv. fr.: stabat pro templo, für den T. (als Schützer), er war der Tempelhüter, Verg.: übtr., si pro mea patria ista virtus staret, Liv.: ni pro iure gentium stetisset fortuna, Liv.: stabat pro partibus invicta fortuna, Flor.: stabit pro signis iusque piumque tuis, Ov. – d) m. in u. Abl.: Graeci, qui in Darei partibus steterant, Curt. 3, 11 (28), 18. – e) mit in od. contra od. adversus u. Akk., gew. im Ggstz. zu ab, cum, pro u. Abl.: nec steterunt in te virque paterque meus, Ov.: quod adversus populi commoda in senectute steterat, sich dem V. des V. widersetzt hatte, Nep.: cum saepe a mendacio contra verum stare homines consuescerent, Cic.: qui nobiscum adversus barbaros steterunt, Nep.: Ligarium non pro Cn. Pompeio, sed pro Iuba et Afris inimicissimis populo Romano stetisse, Quint.: Mulciber in Troiam, pro Troia stabat Apollo, Ov.: mox simulatione contra Pompeium et

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Caesarem, animo pro Caesare stetit, Vell.: quemadmodum Antiochi Philippique bello pro vobis adversus reges, sic nunc pro rege adversus vos stetimus, Liv.: cum quo ferocissime pro Romana societate adversus Punicum foedus steterat, Liv. – f) mit Advv.: hinc stas, illim causam dicis, Plaut. Men. 799: ut, unde stetisset, eo se victoria transferret, Iustin. 5, 4, 12: prope incondita Thurinorum turba nec satis fido animo, unde pugnabat, stans, Liv. 25, 15, 13: unde ius stabat, ei (populo) victoriam dedit (eventus belli), Liv. 21, 10, 9: aliunde stet semper, aliunde sentiat, Liv. 24, 45, 3.

3) auf jmd. od. etwas beruhen, m. in u. Abl. od. m. bl. Abl., omnis in Ascanio cari stat cura parentis, Verg.: stat salus in armis, Val. Flacc.: vigili stant bella magistro, Sil.

4) wie unser zu stehen kommen = kosten, centum talentis, Liv.: magno pretio, Hor.: alci gratis, Cic. Verr. 5, 48 (s. Zumpt z. St.). – übtr., multo sanguine ac vulneribus ea Poenis victoria stetit, Liv.: damnavit multo staturum sanguine Martem, Mart.: sanguine quippe, si renuat, blando nimium facilique marito statura obsequia, Sil.: nulla pestis humano generi pluris stetit, Sen.: tunc res immenso placuit statura labore, Lucan.: haud scio an magno detrimento certamen staturum fuerit, Liv.: periculum vitae meae tuo stat periculo, wird erkauft, ist zu haben für usw., Plaut.: Her-

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culeo stabunt (logi ridiculi) prandio, cenā tibi, Plaut.

II) prägn.: A) eig.: 1) im Ggstz. zur Bewegung = stillstehen, -halten, still-, unbeweglich dastehen, sich nicht rühren, a) eig.: α) v. leb. Wesen, si iste ibit, ito: stabit, astato simul, Plaut.: sed abi intro, noli stare, Plaut.: quid stas lapis? Ter. – equus stare nescit, Verg.: ut taurus vaccā ademptā stare nequit, ruhen und rasten, Ov. – β) v. lebl. Subjj., wie v. Schiffen, videsne navem illam? stare nobis videtur, at iis qui in navi sunt moveri haec villa, Cic. Acad. 2, 81: stetit aequore puppis, Ov.: mea si staret navis in Oceano, still läge, Prop. – von Himmelskörpern, statim stant signa, Plaut. – von Gewässern und anderen Flüssigkeiten, stant aquae, Ov.: placidum ventis stat mare, Verg.: stantia freta, Ov.: stat et fracto dolio vinum, Sen.: gelidus in venis stetit haesitque sanguis, Sen. poët.: cuius ex levi tactu stabant profluvia sanguinis, Arnob. – vom Eis, stat glacies iners, Hor. – b) übtr., von der Zeit – gleichs. stillstehen, verweilen, non segnis stat remeatve dies, Tibull.: veluti stet volucris dies, Hor.

2) mit dem Nbbegr. der Festigkeit, a) als milit. t.t. – α) stehen, festen Fuß fassen, standhalten, in gradu (auf der Mensur), Cic.: qui (miles) steterit (Ggstz. abiecto scuto fugiat), Cic.: in acie stare ac pugnare (Ggstz. in castra refugere), Liv.: verb. comminus stare et impetum sustinere, Caes.: contra leonem

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etiam stetit, Spart. – β) übtr., v. Kampfe selbst – stehen, auf einer Stelle haften, schweben, anceps dicitur certamen stetisse, soll ohne allen Ausschlag gestanden haben, Liv.: ibi aliquamdiu atrox pugna stetit, Liv.: diu pugna neutro inclinata stetit, Liv. – b) von Felsen, Gebäuden = fest, unerschütterlich stehen, dauern (vgl. Drak. Liv. 31, 31, 15), quam si dura silex aut stet Marpesia cautes, Verg.: nec domus ulla nec urbs stare poterit, Cic.: stantibus Hierosolymis, Cic.: muros stare, Liv.: stantia moenia (Ggstz. ruinae muri), Liv.: aedes sacrae stantes (Ggstz. aedium sacrarum ruinae), Sen. – c) v. Geschossen, fest stecken bleiben, haften, missum stetit inguine ferrum, Ov.: hasta stetit medio tergo, Ov.: ossa inter ferreus ad costas alto stat vulnere mucro, Verg.

B) bildl.: 1) im allg., stillstehen, stehenbleiben, utinam res publica stetisset quo coeperat statu, Cic. de off. 2, 3: nihil quo stat loco stabit, omnia sternet abducetque secum vetustas, Sen. ad Marc. 26, 6.

2) stare per alqm, durch jmds. Schuld gleichs. hangen bleiben = an jmd. hangen, liegen, jmds. Schuld sein, per me stetisse, Ter.: non per me stetit, Quint. – oft stat od. non (nihil) stat per alqm m. folg. quo minus u. Konj., Caes., Liv. u.a., od. stat per alqm m. folg. quin od. ne u. Konj., Liv., Suet. u.a. (vgl. Drak. Liv. 8, 2, 2. M. Müller Liv. 2, 31, 11. Ruperti Tac. dial. 21 extr.): u. per alqm stat m. folg. ut

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3) mit dem Nbbegr. der Festigkeit u. Dauer = a) fest-, unerschüttert stehen, sich halten, sich behaupten, bestehen, verbleiben, Bestand haben (Ggstz. titubare, corruere, concĭdere), si stare non possunt, corruant, wenn sie sich nicht halten, sich nicht (bei ihren Vermögensumständen) behaupten können, so mögen sie fallen (bankrott werden), Cic.: qui me stante (solange ich mich in meiner Würde behauptete) stare non poterant, Cic.: per quos homines ordinesque steterim, Cic.: dum stabat regno incolumis, Verg.: stamus animis, sind festen Mutes, Cic.: stas animo, Hor.: quae si valuissent, res publica staret, tu tuis flagitiis concĭdisses, Cic.: res publica stat virtute suā, Liv.: regnum eorum novum fraternā stare concordiā, Liv.: tutelā muliebri res Latina et regnum avitum puero stetit, verblieb dem Kn., Liv.: stat nulla mortalibus umquam, fortunā titubante, fides, Sil.: nullo enim modo posse video stare istum (Caesarem) diutius, quin ipse per se etiam languentibus nobis concĭdat, Cic. ad Att. 10, 8, 6. – b) bei etw. festbleiben, α) = beharren, verharren, ihm nachkommen, an etw. sich halten bei etw. es bewenden lassen, m. in u. Abl., in fide, Cic.: in sententia, Liv.: stare oportet in eo, quod sit iudicatum, Cic. – m. bl. Abl., stant

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sententiā, Plaut.: suis stare iudiciis, Cic.: censoris opinione, Cic.: alcis iudicio, Cic.: alcis decreto, Caes.: illis promissis, Cic.: pacto, Liv.: ut palam in senatu diceret, staturus eo esset, quod censuissent, an ad populum laturus, Liv.: impers., eo stabitur consilio, Liv.: statur priore foedere, Liv. – mit Dat., arbitri sententiae, voluntati patris defuncti, ICt.: rei iudicatae, ICt. – β) übtr., feststehen = festgesetzt-, fest bestimmt-, fest beschlossen sein, stat sua cuique dies, Verg.: tempus agendae rei nondum stare, Liv.: u. so stat sententia, Ter.: stat pensata diu belli sententia, vincam servare invitos, Sil. – dah. stat alci sententia m. folg. Infin. = es steht bei jmd. der Entschluß-, der Wille fest, es ist bei jmd. fest beschlossen, zu usw., Liv.: so auch stat pectore fixum mit folg. Infin., Val. Flacc.: u. stat alci od. bl. stat mit folg. Infin., Cic. u.a. – c) v. Schauspielern u. Schauspielen, stehen = sich auf der Bühne halten, gefallen (Ggstz. cadere, exigi), in his, quas primum Caecilii didici novas, partim sum earum exactus, partim vix steti, Ter.: illi, scripta quibus comoedia prisca viris est, hoc stabant, Hor. – cum stetit olim nova (fabula), actoris operā magis stetisse quam suā, Ter.: securus, cadat an recto stet fabula talo, Hor. – ⇒ Perf. stĕtĕrunt gemessen, Verg. Aen. 2, 774; 3, 48. Prop. 2, 8, 10 M. Ov. her. 7, 166. – Das Supinum statum will Prisc. 9, 38 mit langem a, dagegen 10, 27 mit kurzem a gemessen

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haben; stātūrus mißt Lucan. 2, 566 u. 719; 3, 381. Sil. 17, 82. Mart. 6, 32, 3. – vulg. Nbf. isto, wov. istat, Augustin. serm. 118, 4 Mai: istamus, Itala (Fuld.) Roman. 5, 2: istatis, Itala (psalt. Veron.) psalm. 133, 1: ista, Itala (Fuld.) Iacob. 2, 3: istare, Isid. de nat. rer. 44, 2 cod. Bamb. A.

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2. stō, s. iste ⇒.

virīlis, e (vir), zum Manne gehörig, männlich, I) im allg.: 1) in Rücksicht auf das Geschlecht, a) übh.: stirps, Liv. u. Ov.: secus, männliches Geschlecht (Ggstz. muliebre), Sall. fr., Liv. u.a.: sexus, m.G., Fronto, Sprößling, Sohn, Nep.: tunica, Varro LL.: calceus, Varro LL. u. Cic.: pes, Vitr.: corpora, Sen.: vultus, Ov.: convivia, an denen nur Männer teilnehmen, Vitr.: morbi, Sen.: tela (Ggstz. feminea), Ov.: nomina (Ggstz. nomina muliebria), Varro LL.: membrum virile, das männliche Schamglied, Porphyr. Hor. sat. 1, 9, 70: u. so natura, Oros. 5, 6, 1 (wo naturā virili duplex): pars virilis, das männliche Schamglied, Lucr. 6, 1207, die Hoden, Colum. 7, 11, 2: subst., virīle, is, n., das männliche Schamglied, Apul. apol. 33: Plur. virilia, die männlichen Schamteile, Plin. u.a.: exsectis virilibus semivirum reddidit, Lact.: dah. prägn., viriliores, mit einem größeren Schamgliede Versehene, Lampr. Heliog. 8, 7. – b) als gramm. t.t., männlich, männlichen Geschlechtes, genus, Gell.: nomen, Varro LL. – 2) in Ansehung des Alters, männlich, mannbar, aetas, Oros. 7, 36, 3. Cassian. coen. inst. 4, 24: aetas animusque, Hor. de art. poët. 166: toga, das männliche Kleid, das die röm. Jünglinge ungefähr im fünfzehnten od. sechzehnten Jahre anlegten, Cic.: partes, Mannesrollen, Hor. – 3) in Rücksicht auf die Person: a) als jurist.

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t.t., auf eine Person-, auf den Mann kommend, portio od. pars virilis, der Teil, der auf jeden kommt, der Anteil bei der Erbschaft, ICt. – b) im allg., bei einer Verrichtung, der Teil, Anteil, den eine Person nimmt od. nehmen muß, est aliqua mea pars virilis, mein Teil, meine Pflicht, Cic.: pro virili parte, auf jedes Mannes Anteil, soviel ein Mann leisten kann u. muß, soviel es einem kräftigen Manne gebührt, agrum pro virili parte cepisset, Liv.: qui pro virili parte defendunt, Cic.: so auch pro virili portione, Tac. u.a. (s.M. Müller Liv. praef. § 3. Bünem. Lact. 2, 7, 2). – II) prägn., der Eigenschaft nach, wie unser männlich, für einen Mann sich schickend, folglich mannhaft, kräftig, mutig, standhaft, dolor, Cic.: oratio, Cic.: animus, Cic.: aetas animusque virilis, Hor.: ingenium, Sall.: scelera, wozu männlicher Mut erfordert wird, Tac.: parum virile videatur, Cic. – subst., virīlia, ium, n., mannhafte Taten, Sall. hist. fr. 3, 61 (82), 15. – ⇒ Abl. Sing. virile, Heges. 3, 13. p. 193, 31 W. – Compar. virilior, Lambr. Heliog. 8, 7. – Superl. virilissimus, Corp. inscr. Lat. 9, 394.

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ăcĭēs, ēi, f. [v. 2. acer] ( gen. acii and [p. 23] acie, like dii and die, facii and facie, fr. dies, facies, Cn. Mat. ap. Gell. 9, 14; Caes. B. G. 2, 23; Sall. ap. Serv. ad Verg. G. 1, 208, or Sall. Fragm. ed. Kritz. p. 118; cf. Prisc. p. 780 P.), a sharp edge or point.

Lit., of a sword, dagger, sickle, etc.:

gladiorum,

Plaut. Truc. 2, 6, 11: Vulg. Heb. 11, 34:

securium,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 43, § 113:

falcis,

Verg. G. 2, 365:

hastae,

Ov. M. 3, 107:

ferri,

Plin. 7, 15, 13.—

Transf.

Of the sense or faculty of sight,

Keenness of look or glance, sharpness of vision or sight: oculorum, Lucil. ap. Non. 34, 32; cf. Plaut. Mil. 1, 1, 4; Lucr. 1, 324;

also acies alone,

id. 2, 420; and in plur., id. 4, 693:

ne vultum quidem atque aciem oculorum ferre potuisse,

Caes. B. G. 1, 39:

pupula ad te dirigit aciem,

Cat. 63, 56:

tanta tenuitas, ut fugiat aciem,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 22:

bonum incolumis acies, misera caecitas,

id. Fin. 5, 28, 84; so ib. 4, 24; Verg. A. 12, 558 al.—Hence,

Concr., the pupil of the eye, Lucr. 3, 411; cf.

with 414: acies ipsa, quā cernimus, quae pupula vocatur,

Cic. N. D. 2, 57:

in Albania gigni quosdam glaucā oculorum acie,

Plin. 7, 2, 2 (cf. ib.: glaucis oculis); and poet. (as pars pro toto) for the eye, Lucr. 3, 363; 4, 249; 281; 358;

720: huc geminas nunc flecte acies,

Verg. A. 6, 789; 12, 658 (hence the word is also used in the plur., cf. below, 2.).—

A looking at an object with fixed attention, look, aim:

ad eam rem habeo omnem aciem,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 38.—On the contr., prima acie, at the first glance, Lucr. 2, 448 (cf. primo aspectu, Cic. de Or. 3, 25, 98).—

In milit. lang., the front of an army (conceived of as the edge of a sword), line of battle, battle-array.

In abstr. (cf. Vitr. praef. 1. 7, p. 154 Rod.):

quibus ego si aciem exercitus nostri ostendero,

Cic. Cat. 2, 3, 5:

aciem instruere,

Caes. B. G. 1, 22:

dirigere,

id. ib. 6, 8:

extra aciem procurrere,

id. B. C. 1, 55:

statuit non proeliis, neque in acie, sed alio more bellum gerendum,

Sall. J. 54; cf. Liv. 5, 41, 4;

also of the arrangement of ships for a naval engagement,

Nep. Hann. 11; cf. Caes. B. C. 1, 58.—Hence, metaph.

The battlearray; in concr., an army drawn up in order of battle: acies est instructa a nobis decem cohortium, Galba ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 30:

hostium acies cernebatur,

Caes. B. G. 7, 62: altera pars acii vitassent fluminis undas, Matius ap. Gell. 9, 14 (as transl. of Il. 21 init.):

dubitavit acie pars, Sall. Fragm. l. l.: stabit ante aciem,

Vulg. Deut. 20, 2; 1 Par. 12, 33:

prima acies hastati erant,

the van, the first line, Liv. 8, 8:

tertiam aciem laborantibus subsidio mittere,

Caes. B. G. 1, 52: ab novissima acie, from the rear:

ante signa procedere,

Liv. 8, 10:

dextra acies (= dextrum cornu),

the right wing, Liv. 27, 48, 8:

agmina magis quam acies pugnabant,

in marching order, rather than in order of battle, id. 25, 34 (acies is here, and in similar cases, considered as the sing. used collectively; v. Oud. and Herz. Caes. B. G. 7, 62; yet the plur. is more than probable). Rarely of cavalry, Liv. 8, 39; Vell. 2, 112.— Poet.: acies Vulcania, of a long line of fire, Verg. A. 10, 408.—

The action of the troops drawn up in battlearray, a battle, engagement, = pugna: in acie celebri objectans vitam, Pac. ap. Non. 234, 25; Plaut. Mil. 1, 1, 4: mea facta in acie obliti, Att. ap. Non. 502, 1:

in acie Pharsalica,

Cic. Lig. 3; so id. Fam. 6, 3:

in acie vincere,

Caes. B. G. 7, 29:

dimicare,

ib. 7, 64:

copias in aciem ducere,

Liv. 31, 34:

producere in aciem,

Nep. Milt. 5:

excedere acie,

Caes. B. C. 2, 41; Liv. 31, 17:

direxerunt aciem contra eos,

Vulg. Gen. 14, 8; 2 Par. 18, 33.—

Acies ferri, steel, Plin. 34, 14, 41.—

Poet., sheen, brightness:

obtunsa stellarum,

Verg. G. 1, 395.

Fig.

(Acc. to I. B.) (like acumen.) Acuteness of the mind, sharpness, force, power (so very often in Cicero, but always with the gen. mentis, animi, ingenii):

(cum animus) exacuerit illam, ut oculorum, sic ingenii aciem ad bona eligenda, etc.,

Cic. Leg. 1, 23, 60; so,

ingenii,

id. Ac. 2, 39, 122:

mentis,

id. N. D. 2, 17, 45; id. Tusc. 1, 30, 73:

animi,

id. Sen. 23, 83; id. Phil. 12, 2; Vell. 2, 118, 4; cf.:

rerum diversitas aciem intentionis abrumpit,

Flor. 1 prol., § 3.—

A verbal contest, disputation, discussion, debate:

orationis aciem contra conferam,

Plaut. Ep. 4, 1, 20: ad philosophos me revocas, qui in aciem non saepe prodeunt, Cic. Tusc. 2, 25, 60:

nos jam in aciem dimicationemque veniamus,

id. Or. 13 fin.; cf. id. Opt. Gen. Or. 5, 17; Quint. 2, 10, 8; 6, 4, 17; 10, 1, 29.

ăgo, egi, actum, 3, v. a. (axim = egerim, Pac. ap. Non. 505, 22; Paul. ex Fest. s. v. axitiosi, p. 3 Mull.;

axit = egerit,

Paul. Diac. 3, 3;

AGIER = agi,

Cic. Off. 3, 15;

agentum = agentium,

Vulc. Gall. Av. Cass. 4, 6) [cf. agô; Sanscr. ag, aghami = to go, to drive; agmas = way, train = ogmos; agis = race, contest = agôn; perh. also Germ. jagen, to drive, to hunt], to put in motion, to move (syn.: agitare, pellere, urgere).

Lit.

Of cattle and other animals, to lead, drive.

Absol.: agas asellum, Seip. ap. Cic. de Or. 2, 64, 258:

jumenta agebat,

Liv. 1, 48:

capellas ago,

Verg. E. 1, 13:

Pars quia non veniant pecudes, sed agantur, ab actu etc.,

Ov. F. 1, 323:

caballum,

Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 36.—

With acc. of place, prep., sup., or inf.:

agere bovem Romam,

Curt. 1, 45:

equum in hostem,

id. 7, 4:

Germani in amnem aguntur,

Tac. H. 5, 21:

acto ad vallum equo,

id. A. 2, 13:

pecora per calles,

Curt. 7, 11:

per devia rura capellas,

Ov. M. 1, 676:

pecus pastum,

Varr. L. L. 6, 41, p. 88 Mull.:

capellas potum age,

Verg. E. 9, 23:

pecus egit altos Visere montes,

Hor. C. 1, 2, 7.—

Of men, to drive, lead, conduct, impel.

Absol.:

agmen agens equitum,

Verg. A. 7, 804.—

With prep., abl., or inf.:

vinctum ante se Thyum agebat,

Nep. Dat. 3:

agitur praeceps exercitus Lydorum in populos,

Sil. 4, 720:

(adulteram) maritus per omnem vicum verbere agit,

Tac. G. 19; Suet. Calig. 27:

captivos prae se agentes,

Curt. 7, 6; Liv. 23, 1:

acti ante suum quisque praedonem catenati,

Quint. 8, 3, 69:

captivos sub curribus agere,

Mart. 8, 26:

agimur auguriis quaerere exilia,

Verg. A. 3, 5;

and simple for comp.: multis milibus armatorum actis ex ea regione = coactis,

Liv. 44, 31.— In prose: agi, to be led, to march, to go:

quo multitudo omnis consternata agebatur,

Liv. 10, 29: si citius agi vellet agmen, that the army would move, or march on quicker, id. 2, 58:

raptim agmine acto,

id. 6, 28; so id. 23, 36; 25, 9.— Trop.:

egit sol hiemem sub terras,

Verg. G. 4, 51:

poemata dulcia sunto Et quocumque volent animum auditoris agunto,

lead the mind, Hor. A. P. 100. —Hence, poet.: se agere, to betake one's self, i. e. to go, to come (in Plaut. very freq.;

also in Ter., Verg., etc.): quo agis te?

where are you going? Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 294:

unde agis te?

id. Most. 1, 4, 28; so id. ib. 3, 1, 31; id. Mil. 3, 2, 49; id. Poen. 1, 2, 120; id. Pers. 4, 3, 13; id. Trin. 4, 3, 71:

quo hinc te agis?

where are you going, Ter. And. 4, 2, 25:

Ecce gubernator sese Palinurus agebat,

was moving along, Verg. A. 6, 337:

Aeneas se matutinus agebat,

id. ib. 8, 465:

is enim se primus agebat,

for he strode on in front, id. ib. 9, 696.—Also without se:

Et tu, unde agis?

Plaut. Bacch. 5, 1, 20:

Quo agis?

id. Pers. 2, 2, 34:

Huc age,

Tib. 2, 5, 2 (unless age is here to be taken with veni at the end of the line).—

To drive or carry off (animals or men), to steal, rob, plunder (usually abigere):

Et redigunt actos in sua rura boves,

Ov. F. 3, 64.—So esp. freq. of men or animals taken as booty in war, while ferre is used of portable things; hence, ferre et agere (as in Gr. agein kai pherein, Hom. Il. 5, 484; and reversed, pherein kai agein, in Hdt. and Xen.; cf.:

rapiunt feruntque,

Verg. A. 2, 374:

rapere et auferre,

Cic. Off. 1, 14), in gen., to rob, to plunder: res sociorum ferri agique vidit, Liv. 22, 3:

ut ferri agique res suas viderunt,

id. 38, 15; so id. 3, 37;

so also: rapere agereque: ut ex alieno agro raperent agerentque,

Liv. 22, 1, 2; but portari atque agi means to bear and carry, to bring together, in Caes. B. C. 2, 29 (as pherein kai agein in Plat. Phaedr. 279, C):

ne pulcram praedam agat,

Plaut. Aul. 4, 2, 3:

urbes, agros vastare, praedas agere,

Sall. J. 20, 8; 32, 3:

pecoris et mancipiorum praedas,

id. ib. 44, 5;

so eccl. Lat.: agere praedas de aliquo,

Vulg. Jud. 9, 16; ib. 1 Reg. 27, 8; cf. Gron. Obs. 3, 22, 633.—

To chase, pursue, press animals or men, to drive about or onwards in flight (for the usual agitare).

Of animals:

apros,

Verg. G. 3, 412:

cervum,

id. A. 7, 481; cf. id. ib. 4, 71:

citos canes,

Ov. H. 5, 20:

feros tauros,

Suet. Claud. 21.—

Of men:

ceteros ruerem, agerem,

Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 21 (= prosequerer, premerem, Don.):

ita perterritos egerunt, ut, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 4, 12:

Demoleos cursu palantis Troas agebat,

Verg. A. 5, 265; cf. id. ib. 1, 574:

aliquem in exsilium,

Liv. 25, 2; so Just. 2, 9, 6; 16, 4, 4; 17, 3, 17;

22, 1, 16 al.: aliquem in fugam,

id. 16, 2, 3.—

Of inanimate or abstract objects, to move, impel, push forwards, advance, carry to or toward any point:

quid si pater cuniculos agat ad aerarium?

lead, make, Cic. Off. 3, 23, 90:

egisse huc Alpheum vias,

made its way, Verg. A. 3, 695:

vix leni et tranquillo mari moles agi possunt,

carry, build out, Curt. 4, 2, 8:

cloacam maximam sub terram agendam,

to be carried under ground, Liv. 1, 56;

so often in the histt., esp. Caes. and Livy, as t. t., of moving forwards the battering engines: celeriter vineis ad oppidum actis,

pushed forwards, up, Caes. B. G. 2, 12 Herz.; so id. ib. 3, 21; 7, 17; id. B. C. 2, 1; Liv. 8, 16:

accelerant acta pariter testudine Volsci,

Verg. A. 9, 505 al.:

fugere colles campique videntur, quos agimus praeter navem, i. e. praeter quos agimus navem,

Lucr. 4, 391:

in litus passim naves egerunt,

drove the ships ashore, Liv. 22, 19:

ratem in amnem,

Ov. F. 1, 500:

naves in advorsum amnem,

Tac. H. 4, 22.— Poet.: agere navem, to steer or direct a ship, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 114; so,

agere currum,

to drive a chariot, Ov. M. 2, 62; 2, 388 al.—

To stir up, to throw out, excite, cause, bring forth (mostly poet.):

scintillasque agere ac late differre favillam,

to throw out sparks and scatter ashes far around, Lucr. 2, 675:

spumas ore,

Verg. G. 3, 203; so Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 66:

piceum Flumen agit,

Verg. A. 9, 814:

qui vocem cubantes sensim excitant, eandemque cum egerunt, etc.,

when they have brought it forth, Cic. de Or. 1, 59, 251. —Hence, animam agere, to expel the breath of life, give up the ghost, expire:

agens animam spumat,

Lucr. 3, 493:

anhelans vaga vadit, animam agens,

Cat. 63, 31:

nam et agere animam et efflare dicimus,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 9, 19:

Hortensius, cum has litteras scripsi, animam agebat,

id. Fam. 8, 13, 2; so Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 13:

eodem tempore et gestum et animam ageres,

Cic. Rosc. Com. 8:

Est tanti habere animam ut agam?

Sen. Ep. 101, 12; and with a play upon words: semper agis causas et res agis, Attale, semper. Est, non est, quod agas, Attale, semper agis. Si res et causae desunt, agis, Attale, mulas;

Attale, ne quod agas desit, agas animam,

Mart. 1, 80.—

Of plants, to put forth or out, to shoot, extend:

(salices) gemmas agunt,

Varr. R. R. 1, 30:

florem agere coeperit ficus,

Col. R. R. 5, 10, 10:

frondem agere,

Plin. 18, 6, 8, § 45:

se ad auras palmes agit,

Verg. G. 2, 364:

(platanum) radices trium et triginta cubitorum egisse,

Varr. R. R. 1, 37, 15:

per glebas sensim radicibus actis,

Ov. M. 4, 254; so id. ib. 2, 583:

robora suas radices in profundum agunt,

Plin. 16, 31, 56, § 127.—Metaph.:

vera gloria radices agit,

Cic. Off. 2, 12, 43:

pluma in cutem radices egerat imas,

Ov. M. 2, 582.

Trop.

Spec., to guide, govern:

Tros Tyriusque mihi nullo discrimine agetur,

Verg. A. 1, 574; cf. Forbig. ad h. 1., who considers it the only instance of this use, and compares a similar use of agô; v. L. and S. s. v. II. 2.—

In gen., to move, impel, excite, urge to a thing, to prompt or induce to:

si quis ad illa deus te agat,

Hor. S. 2, 7, 24:

una plaga ceteros ad certamen egit,

Liv. 9, 41; 8, 7; 39, 15: quae te, germane, furentem Mens agit in facinus? Ov. M. 5, 14:

totis mentibus acta,

Sil. 10, 191:

in furorem agere,

Quint. 6, 1, 31:

si Agricola in ipsam gloriam praeceps agebatur,

Tac. Agr. 41:

provinciam avaritia in bellum egerat,

id. A. 14, 32.—

To drive, stir up, excite, agitate, rouse vehemently (cf. agito, II.):

me amor fugat, agit,

Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 8:

agunt eum praecipitem poenae civium Romanorum,

Cic. Verr. 1, 3:

perpetua naturalis bonitas, quae nullis casibus neque agitur neque minuitur,

Nep. Att. 9, 1 Brem.:

opportunitas, quae etiam mediocres viros spe praedae transvorsos agit,

i. e. leads astray, Sall. J. 6, 3; 14, 20; so Sen. Ep. 8, 3.— To pursue with hostile intent, to persecute, disturb, vex, to attack, assail (for the usu. agitare; mostly poet.):

reginam Alecto stimulis agit undique Bacchi,

Verg. A. 7, 405:

non res et agentia (i. e. agitantia, vexantia) verba Lycamben,

Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 25:

acerba fata Romanos agunt,

id. Epod 7, 17:

diris agam vos,

id. ib. 5, 89:

quam deus ultor agebat,

Ov. M. 14, 750:

futurae mortis agor stimulis,

Luc. 4, 517; cf. Matth. ad Cic. Mur. § 21.—

To drive at something, to pursue a course of action, i. e. to make something an object of action; either in the most general sense, like the Engl. do and the Gr. prattein, for every kind of mental or physical employment; or, in a more restricted sense, to exhibit in external action, to act or perform, to deliver or pronounce, etc., so that after the act is completed nothing remains permanent, e. g. a speech, dance, play, etc. (while facere, to make, poiein, denotes the production of an object which continues to exist after the act is completed; and gerere, the performance of the duties of an office or calling).—On these significations, v. Varr. 6, 6, 62, and 6, 7, 64, and 6, 8, 72.—For the more restricted signif. v. Quint. 2, 18, 1 sq.; cf. Manut. ad Cic. Fam. 7, 12; Hab. Syn. 426.

In the most gen. signif., to do, act, labor, in opp. to rest or idleness.

With the gen. objects, aliquid, nihil, plus, etc.:

numquam se plus agere quam nihil cum ageret,

Cic. Rep. 1, 17 (cf. with this, id. Off. 3, 1: numquam se minus otiosum esse quam cum otiosus esset): mihi, qui nihil agit, esse omnino non videtur. id. N. D. 2, 16, 46:

post satietatem nihil (est) agendum,

Cels. 1, 2.—Hence,

Without object:

aliud agendi tempus, aliud quiescendi,

Cic. N. D. 2, 53, 132; Juv. 16, 49:

agendi tempora,

Tac. H. 3, 40:

industria in agendo, celeritas in conficiendo,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 10, 29.—

In colloquial lang., to do, to fare, get on: quid agis? what are you doing? M. Tulli, quid agis? Cic. Cat. 1, 11:

Quid agis?

What's your business? Plaut. Stich. 2, 2, 9; also, How goes it with you? How are you? ti pratteis, Plaut. Curc. 2, 1, 20; Cic. Fam. 7, 11 al.; Hor. S. 1, 9, 4:

vereor, quid agat,

how he is, Cic. Att. 9, 17:

ut sciatis, quid agam,

Vulg. Ephes. 6, 21:

prospere agit anima tua,

fares well, ib. 3 Joan. 2:

quid agitur?

how goes it with you? how do you do? how are you? Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 17; 1, 5, 42; Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 40:

Quid intus agitur?

is going on, Plaut. Cas. 5, 2, 20; id. Ps. 1, 5, 42 al.—

With nihil or non multum, to do, i. e. to effect, accomplish, achieve nothing, or not much (orig. belonging to colloquial lang., but in the class. per. even in oratorical and poet. style): nihil agit;

collum obstringe homini,

Plaut. Curc. 5, 3, 29:

nihil agis,

you effect nothing, it is of no use, Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 12:

nihil agis, dolor! quamvis sis molestus, numquam te esse confitebor malum,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 25, 61 Kuhn.; Matius ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 28, 10: cupis, inquit, abire; sed nihil agis;

usque tenebo,

Hor. S. 1, 9, 15:

[nihil agis,] nihil assequeris,

Cic. Cat. 1, 6, 15 B. and K.:

ubi blanditiis agitur nihil,

Ov. M. 6, 685: egerit non multum, has not done much, Curt. ap. Cic. Fam. 7, 29; cf. Ruhnk. ad Rutil. Lup. p. 120.—

In certain circumstances, to proceed, do, act, manage (mostly belonging to familiar style): Thr. Quid nunc agimus? Gn. Quin redimus, What shall we do now? Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 41:

hei mihi! quid faciam? quid agam?

what shall I do? how shall I act? id. Ad. 5, 3, 3:

quid agam, habeo,

id. And. 3, 2, 18 (= quid respondeam habeo, Don.) al.:

sed ita quidam agebat,

was so acting, Cic. Lig. 7, 21: a Burro minaciter actum, Burrus [p. 75] proceeded to threats, Tac. A. 13, 21.—

To pursue, do, perform, transact (the most usual signif. of this word; in all periods; syn.: facere, efficere, transigere, gerere, tractare, curare): cui quod agat institutumst nullo negotio id agit, Enn. ap. Gell. 19, 10, 12 (Trag. v. 254 Vahl.): ut quae egi, ago, axim, verruncent bene, Pac. ap. Non. 505, 23 (Trag. Rel. p. 114 Rib.):

At nihil est, nisi, dum calet, hoc agitur,

Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 92:

Ut id agam, quod missus huc sum,

id. Ps. 2, 2, 44: homines quae agunt vigilantes, agitantque, ea si cui in somno accidunt, minus mirum est, Att. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 22, 45:

observabo quam rem agat,

what he is going to do, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 114:

Id quidem ago,

That is what I am doing, Verg. E. 9, 37:

res vera agitur,

Juv. 4, 35:

Jam tempus agires,

Verg. A. 5, 638:

utilis rebus agendis,

Juv. 14, 72:

grassator ferro agit rem,

does the business with a dagger, id. 3, 305; 6, 659 (cf.:

gladiis geritur res,

Liv. 9, 41):

nihil ego nunc de istac re ago,

do nothing about that matter, Plaut. Truc. 4, 4, 8:

postquam id actumst,

after this is accomplished, id. Am. 1, 1, 72; so,

sed quid actumst?

id. Ps. 2, 4, 20:

nihil aliud agebam nisi eum defenderem,

Cic. Sull. 12:

ne quid temere ac fortuitu, inconsiderate negligenterque agamus,

id. Off. 1, 29:

agamus quod instat,

Verg. E. 9, 66:

renuntiaverunt ei omnia, quae egerant,

Vulg. Marc. 6, 30; ib. Act. 5, 35:

suum negotium agere,

to mind one's business, attend to one's own affairs, Cic. Off. 1, 9; id. de Or. 3, 55, 211; so,

ut vestrum negotium agatis,

Vulg. 1 Thess. 4, 11:

neque satis Bruto constabat, quid agerent,

Caes. B. G. 3, 14:

postquam res in Africa gestas, quoque modo actae forent, fama divolgavit,

Sall. J. 30, 1:

sed tu delibera, utrum colloqui malis an per litteras agere quae cogitas,

Nep. Con. 3, 8 al. —With the spec. idea of completing, finishing: jucundi acti labores, a proverb in Cic. Fin. 2, 32, 105.—

To pursue in one's mind, to drive at, to revolve, to be occupied with, think upon, have in view, aim at (cf. agito, II. E., volvo and voluto):

nescio quid mens mea majus agit,

Ov. H. 12, 212:

hoc variis mens ipsa modis agit,

Val. Fl. 3, 392:

agere fratri proditionem,

Tac. H. 2, 26:

de intranda Britannia,

id. Agr. 13.—

With a verbal subst., as a favorite circumlocution for the action indicated by the subst. (cf. in Gr. agô with verbal subst.):

rimas agere (sometimes ducere),

to open in cracks, fissures, to crack, Cic. Att. 14, 9; Ov. M. 2, 211; Luc. 6, 728: vos qui regalis corporis custodias agitis, keep watch over, guard, Naev. ap. Non. 323, 1; so Liv. 5, 10:

vigilias agere,

Cic. Verr. 4, 43, 93; Nep. Thras. 4; Tac. H. 3, 76:

excubias alicui,

Ov. F. 3, 245:

excubias,

Tac. H. 4, 58:

pervigilium,

Suet. Vit. 10:

stationem agere,

to keep guard, Liv. 35, 29; Tac. H. 1, 28:

triumphum agere,

to triumph, Cic. Fam. 3, 10; Ov. M. 15, 757; Suet. Dom. 6:

libera arbitria agere,

to make free decisions, to decide arbitrarily, Liv. 24, 45; Curt. 6, 1, 19; 8, 1, 4:

paenitentiam agere,

to exercise repentance, to repent, Quint. 9, 3, 12; Petr. S. 132; Tac. Or. 15; Curt. 8, 6, 23; Plin. Ep. 7, 10; Vulg. Lev. 5, 5; ib. Matt. 3, 2; ib. Apoc. 2, 5:

silentia agere,

to maintain silence, Ov. M. 1, 349:

pacem agere,

Juv. 15, 163:

crimen agere,

to bring accusation, to accuse, Cic. Verr. 4, 22, 48:

laborem agere,

id. Fin. 2, 32:

cursus agere,

Ov. Am. 3, 6, 95:

delectum agere,

to make choice, to choose, Plin. 7, 29, 30, § 107; Quint. 10, 4, 5:

experimenta agere,

Liv. 9, 14; Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 18:

mensuram,

id. 15, 3, 4, § 14:

curam agere,

to care for, Ov. H. 15, 302; Quint. 8, prooem. 18:

curam ejus egit,

Vulg. Luc. 10, 34:

oblivia agere,

to forget, Ov. M. 12, 540:

nugas agere,

to trifle, Plaut. Cist. 2, 3, 29; id. As. 1, 1, 78, and often:

officinas agere,

to keep shop, Inscr. Orell. 4266.—So esp.: agere gratias ( poet. grates; never in sing. gratiam), to give thanks, to thank; Gr. charin echein ( habere gratiam is to be or feel grateful; Gr. charin eidenai; and referre gratiam, to return a favor, requite; Gr. charin apodidonai; cf. Bremi ad Nep. Them. 8, 7):

diis gratias pro meritis agere,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 26:

Haud male agit gratias,

id. Aul. 4, 4, 31:

Magnas vero agere gratias Thais mihi?

Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 1:

Dis magnas merito gratias habeo atque ago,

id. Phorm. 5, 6, 80: Lentulo nostro egi per litteras tuo nomine gratias diligenter, Cic. Fam. 1, 10: immortales ago tibi gratias agamque dum vivam;

nam relaturum me adfirmare non possum,

id. ib. 10, 11, 1: maximas tibi omnes gratias agimus, C. Caesar;

majores etiam habemus,

id. Marcell. 11, 33:

Trebatio magnas ago gratias, quod, etc.,

id. Fam. 11, 28, 8: renuntiate gratias regi me agere;

referre gratiam aliam nunc non posse quam ut suadeam, ne, etc.,

Liv. 37, 37: grates tibi ago, summe Sol, vobisque, reliqui Caelites, * Cic. Rep. 6, 9:

gaudet et invito grates agit inde parenti,

Ov. M. 2, 152; so id. ib. 6, 435; 484; 10, 291; 681; 14, 596; Vulg. 2 Reg. 8, 10; ib. Matt. 15, 36 al.;

and in connection with this, laudes agere: Jovis fratri laudes ago et grates gratiasque habeo,

Plaut. Trin. 4, 1, 2:

Dianae laudes gratesque agam,

id. Mil. 2, 5, 2; so,

diis immortalibus laudesque et grates egit,

Liv. 26, 48:

agi sibi gratias passus est,

Tac. Agr. 42; so id. H. 2, 71; 4, 51; id. A. 13, 21; but oftener grates or gratis in Tac.:

Tiberius egit gratis benevolentiae patrum, A. 6, 2: agit grates,

id. H. 3, 80; 4, 64; id. A. 2, 38; 2, 86; 3, 18; 3, 24; 4, 15 al.—

Of time, to pass, spend (very freq. and class.): Romulus in caelo cum dis agit aevom, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 12, 28; so Pac. id. ib. 2, 21, 49, and Hor. S. 1, 5, 101:

tempus,

Tac. H. 4, 62; id. A. 3, 16: domi aetatem, Enn. ap. Cic. Fam. 7, 6:

aetatem in litteris,

Cic. Leg. 2, 1, 3:

senectutem,

id. Sen. 3, 7; cf. id. ib. 17, 60:

dies festos,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 48; Tac. G. 17:

otia secura,

Verg. G. 3, 377; Ov. F. 1, 68; 4, 926:

ruri agere vitam,

Liv. 7, 39, and Tac. A. 15, 63:

vitam in terris,

Verg. G. 2, 538:

tranquillam vitam agere,

Vulg. 1 Tim. 2, 2:

Hunc (diem) agerem si,

Verg. A. 5, 51:

ver magnus agebat Orbis,

id. G. 2, 338:

aestiva agere,

to pass, be in, summer quarters, Liv. 27, 8; 27, 21; Curt. 5, 8, 24.— Pass.:

menses jam tibi esse actos vides,

Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 2:

mensis agitur hic septimus,

Ter. Hec. 3, 3, 34, and Ov. M. 7, 700:

melior pars acta (est) diei,

Verg. A. 9, 156; Juv. 4, 66; Tac. A. 15, 63:

acta est per lacrimas nox,

Ov. H. 12, 58 Ruhnk.:

tunc principium anni agebatur,

Liv. 3, 6:

actis quindecim annis in regno,

Just. 41, 5, 9:

Nona aetas agitur,

Juv. 13, 28 al. —With annus and an ordinal, to be of a certain age, to be so old:

quartum annum ago et octogesimum,

am eighty-four years old, Cic. Sen. 10, 32:

Annum agens sextum decimum patrem amisit,

Suet. Caes. 1.—Metaph.: sescentesimum et quadragesimum annum urbs nostra agebat, was in its 640 th year, Tac. G. 37.— Hence also absol. (rare), to pass or spend time, to live, to be, to be somewhere:

civitas laeta agere,

was joyful, Sall. J. 55, 2:

tum Marius apud primos agebat,

id. ib. 101, 6:

in Africa, qua procul a mari incultius agebatur,

id. ib. 89, 7:

apud illos homines, qui tum agebant,

Tac. A. 3, 19:

Thracia discors agebat,

id. ib. 3, 38:

Juxta Hermunduros Naristi agunt,

Tac. G. 42:

ultra jugum plurimae gentes agunt,

id. ib. 43:

Gallos trans Padum agentes,

id. H. 3, 34:

quibus (annis) exul Rhodi agit,

id. A. 1, 4:

agere inter homines desinere,

id. ib. 15, 74:

Vitellius non in ore volgi agere,

was not in the sight of the people, id. H. 3, 36:

ante aciem agere,

id. G. 7; and:

in armis agere,

id. A. 14, 55 = versari.—

In the lang. of offerings, t. t., to despatch the victim, to kill, slay. In performing this rite, the sacrificer asked the priest, agone, shall I do it? and the latter answered, age or hoc age, do it:

qui calido strictos tincturus sanguine cultros semper, Agone? rogat, nec nisi jussus agit,

Ov. F. 1. 321 (cf. agonia and agonalia):

a tergo Chaeream cervicem (Caligulae) gladio caesim graviter percussisse, praemissa voce,

hoc age, Suet. Calig. 58; id. Galb. 20. —This call of the priest in act of solemn sacrifice, Hoc age, warned the assembled multitude to be quiet and give attention; hence hoc or id and sometimes haec or istuc agere was used for, to give attention to, to attend to, to mind, heed; and followed by ut or ne, to pursue a thing, have it in view, aim at, design, etc.; cf. Ruhnk. ad Ter. And. 1, 2, 15, and Suet. Calig. 58: hoc agite, Plaut. As. prol. init.:

Hoc age,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 152; id. Ep. 1, 6, 31:

Hoc agite, of poetry,

Juv. 7, 20:

hoc agamus,

Sen. Clem. 1, 12:

haec agamus,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 49:

agere hoc possumus,

Lucr. 1, 41; 4, 969; Juv. 7, 48:

hoccine agis an non? hoc agam,

id. ib., Ter. And. 1, 2, 15; 2, 5, 4:

nunc istuc age,

id. Heaut. 3, 2, 47; id. Phorm. 2, 3, 3 al.:

Hoc egit civis Romanus ante te nemo,

Cic. Lig. 4, 11:

id et agunt et moliuntur,

id. Mur. 38:

(oculi, aures, etc.) quasi fenestrae sunt animi, quibus tamen sentire nihil queat mens, nisi id agat et adsit,

id. Tusc. 1, 20, 46: qui id egerunt, ut gentem... collocarent, aimed at this, that, etc., id. Cat. 4, 6, 12:

qui cum maxime fallunt, id agunt, ut viri boni esse videantur,

keep it in view, that, id. Off. 1, 13, 41:

idne agebas, ut tibi cum sceleratis, an ut cum bonis civibus conveniret?

id. Lig. 6, 18:

Hoc agit, ut doleas,

Juv. 5, 157:

Hoc age, ne mutata retrorsum te ferat aura,

Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 88:

Quid tuus ille destrictus gladius agebat?

have in view, mean, Cic. Leg. 3, 9:

Quid aliud egimus nisi ut, quod hic potest, nos possemus?

id. ib. 4, 10:

Sin autem id actum est, ut homines postremi pecuniis alienis locupletarentur,

id. Rosc. Am. 47, 137:

certiorem eum fecit, id agi, ut pons dissolveretur,

Nep. Them. 5, 1:

ego id semper egi, ne bellis interessem,

Cic. Fam. 4, 7.—Also, the opp.: alias res or aliud agere, not to attend to, heed, or observe, to pursue secondary or subordinate objects: Ch. Alias res agis. Pa. Istuc ago equidem, Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 57; id. Hec. 5, 3, 28:

usque eo animadverti eum jocari atque alias res agere,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 22:

atqui vides, quam alias res agamus,

id. de Or. 3, 14, 51; id. Brut. 66, 233:

aliud agens ac nihil ejusmodi cogitans,

id. Clu. 64.—

In relation to public affairs, to conduct, manage, carry on, administer: agere bellum, to carry on or wage war (embracing the whole theory and practice of war, while bellum gerere designates the bodily and mental effort, and the bearing of the necessary burdens; and bellum facere, the actual outbreak of hostile feelings, v. Herz. ad Caes. B. G. 28):

qui longe alia ratione ac reliqui Galli bellum agere instituerunt,

Caes. B. G. 3, 28:

Antiochus si tam in agendo bello parere voluisset consiliis ejus (Hannibalis) quam in suscipiendo instituerat, etc.,

Nep. Hann. 8, 3; Curt. 4, 10, 29:

aliena bella mercedibus agere,

Mel. 1, 16:

Bellaque non puero tractat agenda puer,

Ov. A. A. 1, 182 (also in id. Tr. 2, 230, Gron. Observ. 2, 3, 227, for the usu. obit, with one MS., reads agit; so Merkel).— Poet.:

Martem for bellum,

Luc. 4, 2: agere proelium, to give battle (very rare):

levibus proeliis cum Gallis actis,

Liv. 22, 9.—Of offices, employments, etc., to conduct, exercise, administer, hold:

forum agere,

to hold court, Cic. Fam. 8, 6; and:

conventus agere,

to hold the assizes, id. Verr. 5, 11, 28; Caes. B. G. 1, 54; 6, 44;

used of the governors of provinces: judicium agere,

Plin. 9, 35, 58, § 120:

vivorum coetus agere,

to make assemblies of, to assemble, Tac. A. 16, 34:

censum agere,

Liv. 3, 22; Tac. A. 14, 46; Suet. Aug. 27:

recensum agere,

id. Caes. 41:

potestatem agere,

Flor. 1, 7, 2:

honorem agere,

Liv. 8, 26:

regnum,

Flor. 1, 6, 2:

rem publicam,

Dig. 4, 6, 35, § 8:

consulatum,

Quint. 12, 1, 16:

praefecturam,

Suet. Tib. 6:

centurionatum,

Tac. A. 1, 44:

senatum,

Suet. Caes. 88:

fiscum agere,

to have charge of the treasury, id. Dom. 12:

publicum agere,

to collect the taxes, id. Vesp. 1:

inquisitionem agere,

Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 18:

curam alicujus rei agere,

to have the management of, to manage, Liv. 6, 15; Suet. Claud. 18:

rei publicae curationem agens,

Liv. 4, 13: dilectum agere, to make a levy, to levy (postAug. for dilectum habere, Cic., Caes., Sall.), Quint. 12, 3, 5; Tac. A. 2, 16; id. Agr. 7 and 10; id. H. 2, 16, 12; Suet. Calig. 43. —

Of civil and political transactions in the senate, the forum, before tribunals of justice, etc., to manage or transact, to do, to discuss, plead, speak, deliberate; constr. aliquid or de aliqua re:

velim recordere, quae ego de te in senatu egerim, quae in contionibus dixerim,

Cic. Fam. 5, 2; 1, 9:

de condicionibus pacis,

Liv. 8, 37:

de summa re publica,

Suet. Caes. 28:

cum de Catilinae conjuratione ageretur in curia,

id. Aug. 94:

de poena alicujus,

Liv. 5, 36:

de agro plebis,

id. 1, 46.—Hence the phrase: agere cum populo, of magistrates, to address the people in a public assembly, for the purpose of obtaining their approval or rejection of a thing (while [p. 76] agere ad populum signifies to propose, to bring before the people):

cum populo agere est rogare quid populum, quod suffragiis suis aut jubeat aut vetet,

Gell. 13, 15, 10:

agere cum populo de re publica,

Cic. Verr. 1, 1, 12; id. Lael. 25, 96:

neu quis de his postea ad senatum referat neve cum populo agat,

Sall. C. 51, 43.—So also absol.:

hic locus (rostra) ad agendum amplissimus,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 1:

Metellus cum agere coepisset, tertio quoque verbo orationis suae me appellabat,

id. Fam. 5, 2.— Transf. to common life.

Agere cum aliquo, de aliquo or re or ut, to treat, deal, negotiate, confer, talk with one about a person or thing; to endeavor to persuade or move one, that, etc.: nihil age tecum (sc. cum odore vini);

ubi est ipsus (vini lepos)?

I have nothing to do with you, Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 11:

Quae (patria) tecum, Catilina, sic agit,

thus pleads, Cic. Cat. 1, 6, 18:

algae Inquisitores agerent cum remige nudo,

Juv. 4, 49:

haec inter se dubiis de rebus agebant,

thus treated together, Verg. A. 11, 445:

de quo et praesens tecum egi diligenter, et scripsi ad te accurate antea,

Cic. Fam. 13, 75:

egi cum Claudia et cum vestra sorore Mucia, ut eum ab illa injuria deterrerent,

id. ib. 5, 2:

misi ad Metellum communes amicos, qui agerent cum eo, ut de illa mente desisteret,

id. ib. 5, 2:

Callias quidam egit cum Cimone, ut eam (Elpinicen) sibi uxorem daret,

Nep. Cim. 1, 3.—Also absol.:

Alcibiades praesente vulgo agere coepit,

Nep. Alc. 8, 2:

si qua Caesares obtinendae Armeniae egerant,

Tac. A. 15, 14:

ut Lucretius agere varie, rogando alternis suadendoque coepit,

Liv. 2, 2.—In Suet. once agere cum senatu, with acc. and inf., to propose or state to the Senate:

Tiberius egit cum senatu non debere talia praemia tribui,

Suet. Tib. 54.—

With the advv. bene, praeclare, male, etc., to deal well or ill with one, to treat or use well or ill:

facile est bene agere cum eis, etc.,

Cic. Phil. 14, 11:

bene egissent Athenienses cum Miltiade, si, etc.,

Val. Max. 5, 3, 3 ext.; Vulg. Jud. 9, 16:

praeclare cum aliquo agere,

Cic. Sest. 23:

Male agis mecum,

Plaut. As. 1, 3, 21:

qui cum creditoribus suis male agat,

Cic. Quinct. 84; and:

tu contra me male agis,

Vulg. Jud. 11, 27.—Freq. in pass., to be or go well or ill with one, to be well or badly off:

intelleget secum actum esse pessime,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 50:

praeclare mecum actum puto,

id. Fam. 9, 24; so id. ib. 5, 18: exstat cujusdam non inscitus jocus bene agi potuisse cum rebus humanis, si Domitius pater talem habuisset uxorem, it would have gone well with human affairs, been well for mankind, if, etc., Suet. Ner. 28.—Also absol. without cum: agitur praeclare, si nosmet ipsos regere possumus, it is well done if, etc., it is a splendid thing if, etc., Cic. Fam. 4, 14:

vivitur cum eis, in quibus praeclare agitur si sunt simulacra virtutis,

id. Off. 1, 15:

bene agitur pro noxia,

Plaut. Mil. 5, 23.—

Of transactions before a court or tribunal.

Aliquid agere ex jure, ex syngrapha, ex sponso, or simply the abl. jure, lege, litibus, obsignatis tabellis, causa, to bring an action or suit, to manage a cause, to plead a case:

ex jure civili et praetorio agere,

Cic. Caecin. 12:

tamquam ex syngrapha agere cum populo,

to litigate, id. Mur. 17:

ex sponso egit,

id. Quint. 9: Ph. Una injuriast Tecum. Ch. Lege agito ergo, Go to law, then, Ter. Phorm. 5, 8, 90:

agere lege in hereditatem,

Cic. de Or. 1, 38, 175; Ov. F. 1, 48; Liv. 9, 46:

cum illo se lege agere dicebat,

Nep. Tim. 5: summo jure agere, to assert or claim one's right to the full extent of the law, Cic. Off. 1, 11:

non enim gladiis mecum, sed litibus agetur,

id. Q. Fr. 1, 4:

causa quam vi agere malle,

Tac. A. 13, 37:

tabellis obsignatis agis mecum,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 11, 33:

Jure, ut opinor, agat, jure increpet inciletque,

with right would bring her charge, Lucr. 3, 963; so,

Castrensis jurisdictio plura manu agens,

settles more cases by force, Tac. Agr. 9:

ubi manu agitur,

when the case is settled by violent hands, id. G. 36.—

Causam or rem agere, to try or plead a case; with apud, ad, or absol.:

causam apud centumviros egit,

Cic. Caecin. 24:

Caesar cum ageret apud censores,

Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 10; so with adversus:

egi causam adversus magistratus,

Vulg. 2 Esdr. 13, 11:

orator agere dicitur causam,

Varr. L. L. 6, 42: causam isto modo agere, Cic. Lig. 4, 10; Tac. Or. 5; 11; 14; Juv. 2, 51; 14, 132:

agit causas liberales,

Cic. Fam. 8, 9: qui ad rem agendam adsunt, M. Cael. ap. Quint. 11, 1, 51:

cum (M. Tullius) et ipsam se rem agere diceret,

Quint. 12, 10, 45: Gripe, accede huc;

tua res agitur,

is being tried, Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 104; Quint. 8, 3, 13;

and extra-judicially: rogo ad Caesarem meam causam agas,

Cic. Fam. 5, 10:

Una (factio) populi causam agebat, altera optimatum,

Nep. Phoc. 3; so, agere, absol., to plead' ad judicem sic agi solet, Cic. Lig. 10:

tam solute agere, tam leniter,

id. Brut. 80:

tu istuc nisi fingeres, sic ageres?

id. ib. 80; Juv. 7, 143 and 144; 14, 32.— Transf. to common life; with de or acc., to discuss, treat, speak of:

Sed estne hic ipsus, de quo agebam?

of whom I was speaking, Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 53:

causa non solum exponenda, sed etiam graviter copioseque agenda est,

to be discussed, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 12; id. Verr. 1, 13, 37:

Samnitium bella, quae agimus,

are treating of, Liv. 10, 31.—Hence,

Agere aliquem reum, to proceed against one as accused, to accuse one, Liv. 4, 42; 24, 25; Tac. A. 14, 18:

reus agitur,

id. ib. 15, 20; 3, 13; and with the gen. of the crime, with which one is charged:

agere furti,

to accuse of theft, Cic. Fam. 7, 22:

adulterii cum aliquo,

Quint. 4, 4, 8:

injuriarum,

id. 3, 6, 19; and often in the Pandects.—

Pass. of the thing which is the subject of accusation, to be in suit or in question; it concerns or affects, is about, etc.:

non nunc pecunia, sed illud agitur, quomodo, etc.,

Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 67:

non capitis ei res agitur, sed pecuniae,

the point in dispute, id. Phorm. 4, 3, 26:

aguntur injuriae sociorum, agitur vis legum, agitur existimatio, veritasque judiciorum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 51:

si magna res, magna hereditas agetur,

id. Fin. 2, 17: qua de re agitur, what the point of dispute or litigation is, id. Brut. 79.—Hence, trop.,

Res agitur, the case is on trial, i. e. something is at stake or at hazard, in peril, or in danger:

at nos, quarum res agitur, aliter auctores sumus,

Plaut. Stich. 1, 2, 72:

quasi istic mea res minor agatur quam tua,

Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 113:

agitur populi Romani gloria, agitur salus sociorum atque amicorum, aguntur certissima populi Romani vectigalia et maxima, aguntur bona multorum civium,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 2, 6:

in quibus eorum aut caput agatur aut fama,

id. Lael. 17, 61; Nep. Att. 15, 2:

non libertas solum agebatur,

Liv. 28, 19; Sen. Clem. 1, 20 al.:

nam tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet,

Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 84 (= in periculo versatur, Lambin.):

agitur pars tertia mundi,

is at stake, I am in danger of losing, Ov. M. 5, 372.—

Res acta est, the case is over (and done for): acta haec res est;

perii,

this matter is ended, Ter. Heaut. 3, 3, 3: hence, actum est de aliquo or aliqua re, it is all over with a person or thing:

actum hodie est de me,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 63:

jam de Servio actum,

Liv. 1, 47:

actum est de collo meo,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 4, 194.—So also absol.: actumst;

ilicet me infelicem,

Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 17:

si animus hominem pepulit, actumst,

id. Trin. 2, 2, 27; Ter. And. 3, 1, 7; Cic. Att. 5, 15:

actumst, ilicet, peristi,

Ter. Eun. 1, 1, 9: periimus;

actumst,

id. Heaut. 3, 3, 3.—

Rem actam agere, to plead a case already finished, i. e. to act to no purpose:

rem actam agis,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 27; id. Cist. 4, 2, 36; Liv. 28, 40; so,

actum or acta agere: actum, aiunt, ne agas,

Ter. Phorm. 2, 3, 72; Cic. Att. 9, 18:

acta agimus,

id. Am. 22.—

To represent by external action, to perform, pronounce, deliver, etc.

Of an orator, Cic. de Or. 1, 31, 142; cf. id. ib. 2, 19, 79:

quae sic ab illo acta esse constabat oculis, voce, gestu, inimici ut lacrimas tenere non possent,

id. ib. 3, 56, 214:

agere fortius et audentius volo,

Tac. Or. 18; 39.—

Of an actor, to represent, play, act:

Ipse hanc acturust Juppiter comoediam,

Plaut. Am. prol. 88; so,

fabulam,

Ter. Ad. prol. 12; id. Hec. prol. 22:

dum haec agitur fabula,

Plaut. Men. prol. 72 al.:

partis,

to have a part in a play, Ter. Phorm. prol. 27:

Ballionem illum cum agit, agit Chaeream,

Cic. Rosc. Com. 7:

gestum agere in scaena,

id. de Or. 2, 57:

dicitur canticum egisse aliquanto magis vigente motu,

Liv. 7, 2 al. — Transf. to other relations, to represent or personate one, to act the part of, to act as, behave like: has partes lenitatis semper egi, Cic. Mur. 3:

egi illos omnes adulescentes, quos ille actitat,

id. Fam. 2, 9:

amicum imperatoris,

Tac. H. 1, 30:

exulem,

id. A. 1, 4:

socium magis imperii quam ministrum,

id. H. 2, 83:

senatorem,

Tac. A. 16, 28.—So of things poetically:

utrinque prora frontem agit,

serves as a bow, Tac. G. 44.—

Se agere = se gerere, to carry one's self, to behave, deport one's self:

tanta mobilitate sese Numidae agunt,

Sall. J. 56, 5:

quanto ferocius ante se egerint,

Tac. H. 3, 2 Halm:

qui se pro equitibus Romanis agerent,

Suet. Claud. 25:

non principem se, sed ministrum egit,

id. ib. 29:

neglegenter se et avare agere,

Eutr. 6, 9:

prudenter se agebat,

Vulg. 1 Reg. 18, 5:

sapienter se agebat,

ib. 4 Reg. 18, 7. —Also absol.:

seditiose,

Tac. Agr. 7:

facile justeque,

id. ib. 9:

superbe,

id. H. 2, 27:

ex aequo,

id. ib. 4, 64:

anxius et intentus agebat,

id. Agr. 5.—

Imper.: age, agite, Ter., Tib., Lucr., Hor., Ov., never using agite, and Catull. never age, with which compare the Gr. age, agete (also accompanied by the particles dum, eia, en, ergo, igitur, jam, modo, nuncjam, porro, quare, quin, sane, vero, verum, and by sis); as an exclamation.

In encouragement, exhortation, come! come on! (old Engl. go to!) up! on! quick! (cf. I. B. fin.).

In the sing.:

age, adsta, mane, audi, Enn. ap. Delr. Synt. 1, 99: age i tu secundum,

come, follow me! Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 1:

age, perge, quaeso,

id. Cist. 2, 3, 12:

age, da veniam filio,

Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 14:

age, age, nunc experiamur,

id. ib. 5, 4, 23:

age sis tu... delude,

Plaut. As. 3, 3, 89; id. Ep. 3, 4, 39; Cic. Tusc. 2, 18; id. Rosc. Am. 16:

quanto ferocius ante se egerint, agedum eam solve cistulam,

Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 151; id. Capt. 3, 4, 39:

Agedum vicissim dic,

Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 69; id. Eun. 4, 4, 27:

agedum humanis concede,

Lucr. 3, 962:

age modo hodie sero,

Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 103:

age nuncjam,

id. And. 5, 2, 25:

En age, quid cessas,

Tib. 2, 2, 10:

Quare age,

Verg. A. 7, 429:

Verum age,

id. ib. 12, 832:

Quin age,

id. G. 4, 329:

en, age, Rumpe moras,

id. ib. 3, 43:

eia age,

id. A. 4, 569.—

In the plur.:

agite, pugni,

up, fists, and at 'em! Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 146:

agite bibite,

id. Curc. 1, 1, 88; id. Stich. 1, 3, 68:

agite in modum dicite,

Cat. 61, 38:

Quare agite... conjungite,

id. 64, 372; Verg. A. 1, 627:

vos agite... volvite,

Val. Fl. 3, 311:

agite nunc, divites, plorate,

Vulg. Jac. 5, 1:

agitedum,

Liv. 3, 62.—Also age in the sing., with a verb in the plur. (cf. age tamnete, Hom. Od. 3, 332; age dê trapeiomen, id. Il. 3, 441):

age igitur, intro abite,

Plaut. Mil. 3, 3, 54:

En agedum convertite,

Prop. 1, 1, 21:

mittite, agedum, legatos,

Liv. 38, 47:

Ite age,

Stat. Th. 10, 33:

Huc age adeste,

Sil. 11, 169.—

In transitions in discourse, well then! well now! well! (esp. in Cic. Or. very freq.). So in Plaut. for resuming discourse that has been interrupted: age, tu interea huic somnium narra, Curc. 2, 2, 5: nunc age, res quoniam docui non posse creari, etc., well now, since I have taught, etc., Lucr. 1, 266:

nunc age, quod superest, cognosce et clarius audi,

id. 1, 920; so id. 1, 952; 2, 62; 333; 730; 3, 418;

4, 109 al.: age porro, tu, qui existimari te voluisti interpretem foederum, cur, etc.,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 22; so id. Rosc. Am. 16; id. Part. 12; id. Att. 8, 3.—And age (as in a.) with a verb in the plur.:

age vero, ceteris in rebus qualis sit temperantia considerate,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 14; so id. Sull. 26; id. Mil. 21; id. Rosc. Am. 37.—

As a sign of assent, well! very well! good! right! Age, age, mansero, Plaut. As. 2, 2, 61: age, age, jam ducat;

dabo,

Ter. Phorm. 4, 3, 57:

Age, veniam,

id. And. 4, 2, 30:

age, sit ita factum,

Cic. Mil. 19:

age sane,

Plaut. Ps. 5, 2, 27; Cic. Fin. 2, 35, 119.

—Age, used with another verb in the imperative, regularly stands before it, but in poetry, for the sake of the metre, it,

Sometimes follows such verb; as,

In dactylic metre:

Cede agedum,

Prop. 5, 9, 54:

Dic age,

Verg. A. 6, 343; Hor. S. 2, 7, 92; Ov. F. 1, 149:

Esto age,

Pers. 2, 42:

Fare age,

Verg. A. 3, 362:

Finge age,

Ov. H. 7, 65:

Redde age,

Hor. S. 2, 8, 80:

Surge age,

Verg. A. 3, 169; 8, 59; 10, 241; Ov. H. 14, 73:

Vade age,

Verg. A. 3, 462; 4, 422; so,

agite: Ite agite,

Prop. 4, 3, 7.—

In other metres (very rarely):

appropera age,

Plaut. Cas. 2, 2, 38:

dic age,

Hor. C. 1, [p. 77] 32, 3; 2, 11, 22;

3, 4, 1.—So also in prose (very rarely): Mittite agedum,

Liv. 38, 47:

procedat agedum ad pugnam,

id. 7, 9.—

It is often separated from such verb:

age me huc adspice,

Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 118; id. Capt. 5, 2, 1:

Age... instiga,

Ter. And. 4, 2, 10; 5, 6, 11:

Quare agite... conjungite,

Cat. 64, 372:

Huc age... veni,

Tib. 2, 5, 2:

Ergo age cervici imponere nostrae,

Verg. A. 2, 707:

en age segnis Rumpe moras,

id. G. 3, 42:

age te procellae Crede,

Hor. C. 3, 27, 62:

Age jam... condisce,

id. ib. 4, 11, 31; id. S. 2, 7, 4.—Hence,

ăgens, entis, P. a.

Adj.

Efficient, effective, powerful (only in the rhet. lang. of Cic.):

utendum est imaginibus agentibus, acribus, insignitis,

Cic. de Or. 2, 87, 358:

acre orator, incensus et agens,

id. Brut. 92, 317.— Comp. and sup. not used.

Agentia verba, in the grammarians, for verba activa, Gell. 18, 12.—

Subst.: ăgentes, ium.

Under the emperors, a kind of secret police (also called frumentarii and curiosi), Aur. Vict. Caes. 39 fin.; Dig. 1, 12; 1, 20; 21; 22; 23, etc.; Amm. 15, 3; 14, 11 al.—

For agrimensores, land-surveyors, Hyg. Lim. p. 179.—

actus, a, um, P. a. Lit., that has been transacted in the Senate, in the forum, before the courts of justice, etc.; hence,

actum, i, n., a public transaction in the Senate, before the people, or before a single magistrate:

actum ejus, qui in re publica cum imperio versatus sit,

Cic. Phil. 1, 7:

acta Caesaris servanda censeo,

id. ib. 1, 7:

acta tui praeclari tribunatus,

id. Dom. 31.—

acta publĭca, or absol.: acta, orum, n., the register of public acts, records, journal. Julius Caesar, in his consulship, ordered that the doings of the Senate (diurna acta) should be made public, Suet. Caes. 20; cf. Ernest. Exc. 1;

but Augustus again prohibited it,

Suet. Aug. 36. Still the acts of the Senate were written down, and, under the succeeding emperors. certain senators were appointed to this office (actis vel commentariis Senatus conficiendis), Tac. A. 5, 4. They had also public registers of the transactions of the assemblies of the people, and of the different courts of justice;

also of births and deaths, marriages, divorces, etc., which were preserved as sources of future history.—Hence, diurna urbis acta,

the city journal, Tac. A. 13, 31:

acta populi,

Suet. Caes. 20:

acta publica,

Tac. A. 12, 24; Suet. Tib. 8; Plin. Ep. 7, 33:

urbana,

id. ib. 9, 15; which were all comprehended under the gen. name acta.

With the time added:

acta eorum temporum,

Plin. 7, 13, 11, § 60:

illius temporis,

Ascon. Mil. 44, 16:

ejus anni,

Plin. 2, 56, 57, § 147.—

Absol., Cic. Fam. 12, 8; 22, 1; 28, 3; Sen. Ben. 2, 10; 3, 16; Suet. Calig. 8; Quint. 9, 3; Juv. 2, 136: Quis dabit historico, quantum daret acta legenti, i. e. to the actuarius, q. v., id. 7, 104; cf. Bahr's Rom. Lit. Gesch. 303.—

acta triumphōrum, the public record of triumphs, fuller than the Fasti triumphales, Plin. 37, 2, 6, § 12.—

acta fŏri (v. Inscr. Grut. 445, 10), the records,

Of strictly historical transactions, Amm. 22, 3, 4; Dig. 4, 6, 33, § 1.—

Of matters of private right, as wills, gifts, bonds (acta ad jus privatorum pertinentia, Dig. 49, 14, 45, § 4), Fragm. Vat. §§ 249, 266, 268, 317.—

acta militarĭa, the daily records of the movements of a legion, Veg. R. R. 2, 19.

ăgo, egi, actum, 3, v. a. (axim = egerim, Pac. ap. Non. 505, 22; Paul. ex Fest. s. v. axitiosi, p. 3 Mull.;

axit = egerit,

Paul. Diac. 3, 3;

AGIER = agi,

Cic. Off. 3, 15;

agentum = agentium,

Vulc. Gall. Av. Cass. 4, 6) [cf. agô; Sanscr. ag, aghami = to go, to drive; agmas = way, train = ogmos; agis = race, contest = agôn; perh. also Germ. jagen, to drive, to hunt], to put in motion, to move (syn.: agitare, pellere, urgere).

Lit.

Of cattle and other animals, to lead, drive.

Absol.: agas asellum, Seip. ap. Cic. de Or. 2, 64, 258:

jumenta agebat,

Liv. 1, 48:

capellas ago,

Verg. E. 1, 13:

Pars quia non veniant pecudes, sed agantur, ab actu etc.,

Ov. F. 1, 323:

caballum,

Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 36.—

With acc. of place, prep., sup., or inf.:

agere bovem Romam,

Curt. 1, 45:

equum in hostem,

id. 7, 4:

Germani in amnem aguntur,

Tac. H. 5, 21:

acto ad vallum equo,

id. A. 2, 13:

pecora per calles,

Curt. 7, 11:

per devia rura capellas,

Ov. M. 1, 676:

pecus pastum,

Varr. L. L. 6, 41, p. 88 Mull.:

capellas potum age,

Verg. E. 9, 23:

pecus egit altos Visere montes,

Hor. C. 1, 2, 7.—

Of men, to drive, lead, conduct, impel.

Absol.:

agmen agens equitum,

Verg. A. 7, 804.—

With prep., abl., or inf.:

vinctum ante se Thyum agebat,

Nep. Dat. 3:

agitur praeceps exercitus Lydorum in populos,

Sil. 4, 720:

(adulteram) maritus per omnem vicum verbere agit,

Tac. G. 19; Suet. Calig. 27:

captivos prae se agentes,

Curt. 7, 6; Liv. 23, 1:

acti ante suum quisque praedonem catenati,

Quint. 8, 3, 69:

captivos sub curribus agere,

Mart. 8, 26:

agimur auguriis quaerere exilia,

Verg. A. 3, 5;

and simple for comp.: multis milibus armatorum actis ex ea regione = coactis,

Liv. 44, 31.— In prose: agi, to be led, to march, to go:

quo multitudo omnis consternata agebatur,

Liv. 10, 29: si citius agi vellet agmen, that the army would move, or march on quicker, id. 2, 58:

raptim agmine acto,

id. 6, 28; so id. 23, 36; 25, 9.— Trop.:

egit sol hiemem sub terras,

Verg. G. 4, 51:

poemata dulcia sunto Et quocumque volent animum auditoris agunto,

lead the mind, Hor. A. P. 100. —Hence, poet.: se agere, to betake one's self, i. e. to go, to come (in Plaut. very freq.;

also in Ter., Verg., etc.): quo agis te?

where are you going? Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 294:

unde agis te?

id. Most. 1, 4, 28; so id. ib. 3, 1, 31; id. Mil. 3, 2, 49; id. Poen. 1, 2, 120; id. Pers. 4, 3, 13; id. Trin. 4, 3, 71:

quo hinc te agis?

where are you going, Ter. And. 4, 2, 25:

Ecce gubernator sese Palinurus agebat,

was moving along, Verg. A. 6, 337:

Aeneas se matutinus agebat,

id. ib. 8, 465:

is enim se primus agebat,

for he strode on in front, id. ib. 9, 696.—Also without se:

Et tu, unde agis?

Plaut. Bacch. 5, 1, 20:

Quo agis?

id. Pers. 2, 2, 34:

Huc age,

Tib. 2, 5, 2 (unless age is here to be taken with veni at the end of the line).—

To drive or carry off (animals or men), to steal, rob, plunder (usually abigere):

Et redigunt actos in sua rura boves,

Ov. F. 3, 64.—So esp. freq. of men or animals taken as booty in war, while ferre is used of portable things; hence, ferre et agere (as in Gr. agein kai pherein, Hom. Il. 5, 484; and reversed, pherein kai agein, in Hdt. and Xen.; cf.:

rapiunt feruntque,

Verg. A. 2, 374:

rapere et auferre,

Cic. Off. 1, 14), in gen., to rob, to plunder: res sociorum ferri agique vidit, Liv. 22, 3:

ut ferri agique res suas viderunt,

id. 38, 15; so id. 3, 37;

so also: rapere agereque: ut ex alieno agro raperent agerentque,

Liv. 22, 1, 2; but portari atque agi means to bear and carry, to bring together, in Caes. B. C. 2, 29 (as pherein kai agein in Plat. Phaedr. 279, C):

ne pulcram praedam agat,

Plaut. Aul. 4, 2, 3:

urbes, agros vastare, praedas agere,

Sall. J. 20, 8; 32, 3:

pecoris et mancipiorum praedas,

id. ib. 44, 5;

so eccl. Lat.: agere praedas de aliquo,

Vulg. Jud. 9, 16; ib. 1 Reg. 27, 8; cf. Gron. Obs. 3, 22, 633.—

To chase, pursue, press animals or men, to drive about or onwards in flight (for the usual agitare).

Of animals:

apros,

Verg. G. 3, 412:

cervum,

id. A. 7, 481; cf. id. ib. 4, 71:

citos canes,

Ov. H. 5, 20:

feros tauros,

Suet. Claud. 21.—

Of men:

ceteros ruerem, agerem,

Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 21 (= prosequerer, premerem, Don.):

ita perterritos egerunt, ut, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 4, 12:

Demoleos cursu palantis Troas agebat,

Verg. A. 5, 265; cf. id. ib. 1, 574:

aliquem in exsilium,

Liv. 25, 2; so Just. 2, 9, 6; 16, 4, 4; 17, 3, 17;

22, 1, 16 al.: aliquem in fugam,

id. 16, 2, 3.—

Of inanimate or abstract objects, to move, impel, push forwards, advance, carry to or toward any point:

quid si pater cuniculos agat ad aerarium?

lead, make, Cic. Off. 3, 23, 90:

egisse huc Alpheum vias,

made its way, Verg. A. 3, 695:

vix leni et tranquillo mari moles agi possunt,

carry, build out, Curt. 4, 2, 8:

cloacam maximam sub terram agendam,

to be carried under ground, Liv. 1, 56;

so often in the histt., esp. Caes. and Livy, as t. t., of moving forwards the battering engines: celeriter vineis ad oppidum actis,

pushed forwards, up, Caes. B. G. 2, 12 Herz.; so id. ib. 3, 21; 7, 17; id. B. C. 2, 1; Liv. 8, 16:

accelerant acta pariter testudine Volsci,

Verg. A. 9, 505 al.:

fugere colles campique videntur, quos agimus praeter navem, i. e. praeter quos agimus navem,

Lucr. 4, 391:

in litus passim naves egerunt,

drove the ships ashore, Liv. 22, 19:

ratem in amnem,

Ov. F. 1, 500:

naves in advorsum amnem,

Tac. H. 4, 22.— Poet.: agere navem, to steer or direct a ship, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 114; so,

agere currum,

to drive a chariot, Ov. M. 2, 62; 2, 388 al.—

To stir up, to throw out, excite, cause, bring forth (mostly poet.):

scintillasque agere ac late differre favillam,

to throw out sparks and scatter ashes far around, Lucr. 2, 675:

spumas ore,

Verg. G. 3, 203; so Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 66:

piceum Flumen agit,

Verg. A. 9, 814:

qui vocem cubantes sensim excitant, eandemque cum egerunt, etc.,

when they have brought it forth, Cic. de Or. 1, 59, 251. —Hence, animam agere, to expel the breath of life, give up the ghost, expire:

agens animam spumat,

Lucr. 3, 493:

anhelans vaga vadit, animam agens,

Cat. 63, 31:

nam et agere animam et efflare dicimus,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 9, 19:

Hortensius, cum has litteras scripsi, animam agebat,

id. Fam. 8, 13, 2; so Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 13:

eodem tempore et gestum et animam ageres,

Cic. Rosc. Com. 8:

Est tanti habere animam ut agam?

Sen. Ep. 101, 12; and with a play upon words: semper agis causas et res agis, Attale, semper. Est, non est, quod agas, Attale, semper agis. Si res et causae desunt, agis, Attale, mulas;

Attale, ne quod agas desit, agas animam,

Mart. 1, 80.—

Of plants, to put forth or out, to shoot, extend:

(salices) gemmas agunt,

Varr. R. R. 1, 30:

florem agere coeperit ficus,

Col. R. R. 5, 10, 10:

frondem agere,

Plin. 18, 6, 8, § 45:

se ad auras palmes agit,

Verg. G. 2, 364:

(platanum) radices trium et triginta cubitorum egisse,

Varr. R. R. 1, 37, 15:

per glebas sensim radicibus actis,

Ov. M. 4, 254; so id. ib. 2, 583:

robora suas radices in profundum agunt,

Plin. 16, 31, 56, § 127.—Metaph.:

vera gloria radices agit,

Cic. Off. 2, 12, 43:

pluma in cutem radices egerat imas,

Ov. M. 2, 582.

Trop.

Spec., to guide, govern:

Tros Tyriusque mihi nullo discrimine agetur,

Verg. A. 1, 574; cf. Forbig. ad h. 1., who considers it the only instance of this use, and compares a similar use of agô; v. L. and S. s. v. II. 2.—

In gen., to move, impel, excite, urge to a thing, to prompt or induce to:

si quis ad illa deus te agat,

Hor. S. 2, 7, 24:

una plaga ceteros ad certamen egit,

Liv. 9, 41; 8, 7; 39, 15: quae te, germane, furentem Mens agit in facinus? Ov. M. 5, 14:

totis mentibus acta,

Sil. 10, 191:

in furorem agere,

Quint. 6, 1, 31:

si Agricola in ipsam gloriam praeceps agebatur,

Tac. Agr. 41:

provinciam avaritia in bellum egerat,

id. A. 14, 32.—

To drive, stir up, excite, agitate, rouse vehemently (cf. agito, II.):

me amor fugat, agit,

Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 8:

agunt eum praecipitem poenae civium Romanorum,

Cic. Verr. 1, 3:

perpetua naturalis bonitas, quae nullis casibus neque agitur neque minuitur,

Nep. Att. 9, 1 Brem.:

opportunitas, quae etiam mediocres viros spe praedae transvorsos agit,

i. e. leads astray, Sall. J. 6, 3; 14, 20; so Sen. Ep. 8, 3.— To pursue with hostile intent, to persecute, disturb, vex, to attack, assail (for the usu. agitare; mostly poet.):

reginam Alecto stimulis agit undique Bacchi,

Verg. A. 7, 405:

non res et agentia (i. e. agitantia, vexantia) verba Lycamben,

Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 25:

acerba fata Romanos agunt,

id. Epod 7, 17:

diris agam vos,

id. ib. 5, 89:

quam deus ultor agebat,

Ov. M. 14, 750:

futurae mortis agor stimulis,

Luc. 4, 517; cf. Matth. ad Cic. Mur. § 21.—

To drive at something, to pursue a course of action, i. e. to make something an object of action; either in the most general sense, like the Engl. do and the Gr. prattein, for every kind of mental or physical employment; or, in a more restricted sense, to exhibit in external action, to act or perform, to deliver or pronounce, etc., so that after the act is completed nothing remains permanent, e. g. a speech, dance, play, etc. (while facere, to make, poiein, denotes the production of an object which continues to exist after the act is completed; and gerere, the performance of the duties of an office or calling).—On these significations, v. Varr. 6, 6, 62, and 6, 7, 64, and 6, 8, 72.—For the more restricted signif. v. Quint. 2, 18, 1 sq.; cf. Manut. ad Cic. Fam. 7, 12; Hab. Syn. 426.

In the most gen. signif., to do, act, labor, in opp. to rest or idleness.

With the gen. objects, aliquid, nihil, plus, etc.:

numquam se plus agere quam nihil cum ageret,

Cic. Rep. 1, 17 (cf. with this, id. Off. 3, 1: numquam se minus otiosum esse quam cum otiosus esset): mihi, qui nihil agit, esse omnino non videtur. id. N. D. 2, 16, 46:

post satietatem nihil (est) agendum,

Cels. 1, 2.—Hence,

Without object:

aliud agendi tempus, aliud quiescendi,

Cic. N. D. 2, 53, 132; Juv. 16, 49:

agendi tempora,

Tac. H. 3, 40:

industria in agendo, celeritas in conficiendo,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 10, 29.—

In colloquial lang., to do, to fare, get on: quid agis? what are you doing? M. Tulli, quid agis? Cic. Cat. 1, 11:

Quid agis?

What's your business? Plaut. Stich. 2, 2, 9; also, How goes it with you? How are you? ti pratteis, Plaut. Curc. 2, 1, 20; Cic. Fam. 7, 11 al.; Hor. S. 1, 9, 4:

vereor, quid agat,

how he is, Cic. Att. 9, 17:

ut sciatis, quid agam,

Vulg. Ephes. 6, 21:

prospere agit anima tua,

fares well, ib. 3 Joan. 2:

quid agitur?

how goes it with you? how do you do? how are you? Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 17; 1, 5, 42; Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 40:

Quid intus agitur?

is going on, Plaut. Cas. 5, 2, 20; id. Ps. 1, 5, 42 al.—

With nihil or non multum, to do, i. e. to effect, accomplish, achieve nothing, or not much (orig. belonging to colloquial lang., but in the class. per. even in oratorical and poet. style): nihil agit;

collum obstringe homini,

Plaut. Curc. 5, 3, 29:

nihil agis,

you effect nothing, it is of no use, Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 12:

nihil agis, dolor! quamvis sis molestus, numquam te esse confitebor malum,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 25, 61 Kuhn.; Matius ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 28, 10: cupis, inquit, abire; sed nihil agis;

usque tenebo,

Hor. S. 1, 9, 15:

[nihil agis,] nihil assequeris,

Cic. Cat. 1, 6, 15 B. and K.:

ubi blanditiis agitur nihil,

Ov. M. 6, 685: egerit non multum, has not done much, Curt. ap. Cic. Fam. 7, 29; cf. Ruhnk. ad Rutil. Lup. p. 120.—

In certain circumstances, to proceed, do, act, manage (mostly belonging to familiar style): Thr. Quid nunc agimus? Gn. Quin redimus, What shall we do now? Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 41:

hei mihi! quid faciam? quid agam?

what shall I do? how shall I act? id. Ad. 5, 3, 3:

quid agam, habeo,

id. And. 3, 2, 18 (= quid respondeam habeo, Don.) al.:

sed ita quidam agebat,

was so acting, Cic. Lig. 7, 21: a Burro minaciter actum, Burrus [p. 75] proceeded to threats, Tac. A. 13, 21.—

To pursue, do, perform, transact (the most usual signif. of this word; in all periods; syn.: facere, efficere, transigere, gerere, tractare, curare): cui quod agat institutumst nullo negotio id agit, Enn. ap. Gell. 19, 10, 12 (Trag. v. 254 Vahl.): ut quae egi, ago, axim, verruncent bene, Pac. ap. Non. 505, 23 (Trag. Rel. p. 114 Rib.):

At nihil est, nisi, dum calet, hoc agitur,

Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 92:

Ut id agam, quod missus huc sum,

id. Ps. 2, 2, 44: homines quae agunt vigilantes, agitantque, ea si cui in somno accidunt, minus mirum est, Att. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 22, 45:

observabo quam rem agat,

what he is going to do, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 114:

Id quidem ago,

That is what I am doing, Verg. E. 9, 37:

res vera agitur,

Juv. 4, 35:

Jam tempus agires,

Verg. A. 5, 638:

utilis rebus agendis,

Juv. 14, 72:

grassator ferro agit rem,

does the business with a dagger, id. 3, 305; 6, 659 (cf.:

gladiis geritur res,

Liv. 9, 41):

nihil ego nunc de istac re ago,

do nothing about that matter, Plaut. Truc. 4, 4, 8:

postquam id actumst,

after this is accomplished, id. Am. 1, 1, 72; so,

sed quid actumst?

id. Ps. 2, 4, 20:

nihil aliud agebam nisi eum defenderem,

Cic. Sull. 12:

ne quid temere ac fortuitu, inconsiderate negligenterque agamus,

id. Off. 1, 29:

agamus quod instat,

Verg. E. 9, 66:

renuntiaverunt ei omnia, quae egerant,

Vulg. Marc. 6, 30; ib. Act. 5, 35:

suum negotium agere,

to mind one's business, attend to one's own affairs, Cic. Off. 1, 9; id. de Or. 3, 55, 211; so,

ut vestrum negotium agatis,

Vulg. 1 Thess. 4, 11:

neque satis Bruto constabat, quid agerent,

Caes. B. G. 3, 14:

postquam res in Africa gestas, quoque modo actae forent, fama divolgavit,

Sall. J. 30, 1:

sed tu delibera, utrum colloqui malis an per litteras agere quae cogitas,

Nep. Con. 3, 8 al. —With the spec. idea of completing, finishing: jucundi acti labores, a proverb in Cic. Fin. 2, 32, 105.—

To pursue in one's mind, to drive at, to revolve, to be occupied with, think upon, have in view, aim at (cf. agito, II. E., volvo and voluto):

nescio quid mens mea majus agit,

Ov. H. 12, 212:

hoc variis mens ipsa modis agit,

Val. Fl. 3, 392:

agere fratri proditionem,

Tac. H. 2, 26:

de intranda Britannia,

id. Agr. 13.—

With a verbal subst., as a favorite circumlocution for the action indicated by the subst. (cf. in Gr. agô with verbal subst.):

rimas agere (sometimes ducere),

to open in cracks, fissures, to crack, Cic. Att. 14, 9; Ov. M. 2, 211; Luc. 6, 728: vos qui regalis corporis custodias agitis, keep watch over, guard, Naev. ap. Non. 323, 1; so Liv. 5, 10:

vigilias agere,

Cic. Verr. 4, 43, 93; Nep. Thras. 4; Tac. H. 3, 76:

excubias alicui,

Ov. F. 3, 245:

excubias,

Tac. H. 4, 58:

pervigilium,

Suet. Vit. 10:

stationem agere,

to keep guard, Liv. 35, 29; Tac. H. 1, 28:

triumphum agere,

to triumph, Cic. Fam. 3, 10; Ov. M. 15, 757; Suet. Dom. 6:

libera arbitria agere,

to make free decisions, to decide arbitrarily, Liv. 24, 45; Curt. 6, 1, 19; 8, 1, 4:

paenitentiam agere,

to exercise repentance, to repent, Quint. 9, 3, 12; Petr. S. 132; Tac. Or. 15; Curt. 8, 6, 23; Plin. Ep. 7, 10; Vulg. Lev. 5, 5; ib. Matt. 3, 2; ib. Apoc. 2, 5:

silentia agere,

to maintain silence, Ov. M. 1, 349:

pacem agere,

Juv. 15, 163:

crimen agere,

to bring accusation, to accuse, Cic. Verr. 4, 22, 48:

laborem agere,

id. Fin. 2, 32:

cursus agere,

Ov. Am. 3, 6, 95:

delectum agere,

to make choice, to choose, Plin. 7, 29, 30, § 107; Quint. 10, 4, 5:

experimenta agere,

Liv. 9, 14; Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 18:

mensuram,

id. 15, 3, 4, § 14:

curam agere,

to care for, Ov. H. 15, 302; Quint. 8, prooem. 18:

curam ejus egit,

Vulg. Luc. 10, 34:

oblivia agere,

to forget, Ov. M. 12, 540:

nugas agere,

to trifle, Plaut. Cist. 2, 3, 29; id. As. 1, 1, 78, and often:

officinas agere,

to keep shop, Inscr. Orell. 4266.—So esp.: agere gratias ( poet. grates; never in sing. gratiam), to give thanks, to thank; Gr. charin echein ( habere gratiam is to be or feel grateful; Gr. charin eidenai; and referre gratiam, to return a favor, requite; Gr. charin apodidonai; cf. Bremi ad Nep. Them. 8, 7):

diis gratias pro meritis agere,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 26:

Haud male agit gratias,

id. Aul. 4, 4, 31:

Magnas vero agere gratias Thais mihi?

Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 1:

Dis magnas merito gratias habeo atque ago,

id. Phorm. 5, 6, 80: Lentulo nostro egi per litteras tuo nomine gratias diligenter, Cic. Fam. 1, 10: immortales ago tibi gratias agamque dum vivam;

nam relaturum me adfirmare non possum,

id. ib. 10, 11, 1: maximas tibi omnes gratias agimus, C. Caesar;

majores etiam habemus,

id. Marcell. 11, 33:

Trebatio magnas ago gratias, quod, etc.,

id. Fam. 11, 28, 8: renuntiate gratias regi me agere;

referre gratiam aliam nunc non posse quam ut suadeam, ne, etc.,

Liv. 37, 37: grates tibi ago, summe Sol, vobisque, reliqui Caelites, * Cic. Rep. 6, 9:

gaudet et invito grates agit inde parenti,

Ov. M. 2, 152; so id. ib. 6, 435; 484; 10, 291; 681; 14, 596; Vulg. 2 Reg. 8, 10; ib. Matt. 15, 36 al.;

and in connection with this, laudes agere: Jovis fratri laudes ago et grates gratiasque habeo,

Plaut. Trin. 4, 1, 2:

Dianae laudes gratesque agam,

id. Mil. 2, 5, 2; so,

diis immortalibus laudesque et grates egit,

Liv. 26, 48:

agi sibi gratias passus est,

Tac. Agr. 42; so id. H. 2, 71; 4, 51; id. A. 13, 21; but oftener grates or gratis in Tac.:

Tiberius egit gratis benevolentiae patrum, A. 6, 2: agit grates,

id. H. 3, 80; 4, 64; id. A. 2, 38; 2, 86; 3, 18; 3, 24; 4, 15 al.—

Of time, to pass, spend (very freq. and class.): Romulus in caelo cum dis agit aevom, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 12, 28; so Pac. id. ib. 2, 21, 49, and Hor. S. 1, 5, 101:

tempus,

Tac. H. 4, 62; id. A. 3, 16: domi aetatem, Enn. ap. Cic. Fam. 7, 6:

aetatem in litteris,

Cic. Leg. 2, 1, 3:

senectutem,

id. Sen. 3, 7; cf. id. ib. 17, 60:

dies festos,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 48; Tac. G. 17:

otia secura,

Verg. G. 3, 377; Ov. F. 1, 68; 4, 926:

ruri agere vitam,

Liv. 7, 39, and Tac. A. 15, 63:

vitam in terris,

Verg. G. 2, 538:

tranquillam vitam agere,

Vulg. 1 Tim. 2, 2:

Hunc (diem) agerem si,

Verg. A. 5, 51:

ver magnus agebat Orbis,

id. G. 2, 338:

aestiva agere,

to pass, be in, summer quarters, Liv. 27, 8; 27, 21; Curt. 5, 8, 24.— Pass.:

menses jam tibi esse actos vides,

Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 2:

mensis agitur hic septimus,

Ter. Hec. 3, 3, 34, and Ov. M. 7, 700:

melior pars acta (est) diei,

Verg. A. 9, 156; Juv. 4, 66; Tac. A. 15, 63:

acta est per lacrimas nox,

Ov. H. 12, 58 Ruhnk.:

tunc principium anni agebatur,

Liv. 3, 6:

actis quindecim annis in regno,

Just. 41, 5, 9:

Nona aetas agitur,

Juv. 13, 28 al. —With annus and an ordinal, to be of a certain age, to be so old:

quartum annum ago et octogesimum,

am eighty-four years old, Cic. Sen. 10, 32:

Annum agens sextum decimum patrem amisit,

Suet. Caes. 1.—Metaph.: sescentesimum et quadragesimum annum urbs nostra agebat, was in its 640 th year, Tac. G. 37.— Hence also absol. (rare), to pass or spend time, to live, to be, to be somewhere:

civitas laeta agere,

was joyful, Sall. J. 55, 2:

tum Marius apud primos agebat,

id. ib. 101, 6:

in Africa, qua procul a mari incultius agebatur,

id. ib. 89, 7:

apud illos homines, qui tum agebant,

Tac. A. 3, 19:

Thracia discors agebat,

id. ib. 3, 38:

Juxta Hermunduros Naristi agunt,

Tac. G. 42:

ultra jugum plurimae gentes agunt,

id. ib. 43:

Gallos trans Padum agentes,

id. H. 3, 34:

quibus (annis) exul Rhodi agit,

id. A. 1, 4:

agere inter homines desinere,

id. ib. 15, 74:

Vitellius non in ore volgi agere,

was not in the sight of the people, id. H. 3, 36:

ante aciem agere,

id. G. 7; and:

in armis agere,

id. A. 14, 55 = versari.—

In the lang. of offerings, t. t., to despatch the victim, to kill, slay. In performing this rite, the sacrificer asked the priest, agone, shall I do it? and the latter answered, age or hoc age, do it:

qui calido strictos tincturus sanguine cultros semper, Agone? rogat, nec nisi jussus agit,

Ov. F. 1. 321 (cf. agonia and agonalia):

a tergo Chaeream cervicem (Caligulae) gladio caesim graviter percussisse, praemissa voce,

hoc age, Suet. Calig. 58; id. Galb. 20. —This call of the priest in act of solemn sacrifice, Hoc age, warned the assembled multitude to be quiet and give attention; hence hoc or id and sometimes haec or istuc agere was used for, to give attention to, to attend to, to mind, heed; and followed by ut or ne, to pursue a thing, have it in view, aim at, design, etc.; cf. Ruhnk. ad Ter. And. 1, 2, 15, and Suet. Calig. 58: hoc agite, Plaut. As. prol. init.:

Hoc age,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 152; id. Ep. 1, 6, 31:

Hoc agite, of poetry,

Juv. 7, 20:

hoc agamus,

Sen. Clem. 1, 12:

haec agamus,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 49:

agere hoc possumus,

Lucr. 1, 41; 4, 969; Juv. 7, 48:

hoccine agis an non? hoc agam,

id. ib., Ter. And. 1, 2, 15; 2, 5, 4:

nunc istuc age,

id. Heaut. 3, 2, 47; id. Phorm. 2, 3, 3 al.:

Hoc egit civis Romanus ante te nemo,

Cic. Lig. 4, 11:

id et agunt et moliuntur,

id. Mur. 38:

(oculi, aures, etc.) quasi fenestrae sunt animi, quibus tamen sentire nihil queat mens, nisi id agat et adsit,

id. Tusc. 1, 20, 46: qui id egerunt, ut gentem... collocarent, aimed at this, that, etc., id. Cat. 4, 6, 12:

qui cum maxime fallunt, id agunt, ut viri boni esse videantur,

keep it in view, that, id. Off. 1, 13, 41:

idne agebas, ut tibi cum sceleratis, an ut cum bonis civibus conveniret?

id. Lig. 6, 18:

Hoc agit, ut doleas,

Juv. 5, 157:

Hoc age, ne mutata retrorsum te ferat aura,

Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 88:

Quid tuus ille destrictus gladius agebat?

have in view, mean, Cic. Leg. 3, 9:

Quid aliud egimus nisi ut, quod hic potest, nos possemus?

id. ib. 4, 10:

Sin autem id actum est, ut homines postremi pecuniis alienis locupletarentur,

id. Rosc. Am. 47, 137:

certiorem eum fecit, id agi, ut pons dissolveretur,

Nep. Them. 5, 1:

ego id semper egi, ne bellis interessem,

Cic. Fam. 4, 7.—Also, the opp.: alias res or aliud agere, not to attend to, heed, or observe, to pursue secondary or subordinate objects: Ch. Alias res agis. Pa. Istuc ago equidem, Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 57; id. Hec. 5, 3, 28:

usque eo animadverti eum jocari atque alias res agere,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 22:

atqui vides, quam alias res agamus,

id. de Or. 3, 14, 51; id. Brut. 66, 233:

aliud agens ac nihil ejusmodi cogitans,

id. Clu. 64.—

In relation to public affairs, to conduct, manage, carry on, administer: agere bellum, to carry on or wage war (embracing the whole theory and practice of war, while bellum gerere designates the bodily and mental effort, and the bearing of the necessary burdens; and bellum facere, the actual outbreak of hostile feelings, v. Herz. ad Caes. B. G. 28):

qui longe alia ratione ac reliqui Galli bellum agere instituerunt,

Caes. B. G. 3, 28:

Antiochus si tam in agendo bello parere voluisset consiliis ejus (Hannibalis) quam in suscipiendo instituerat, etc.,

Nep. Hann. 8, 3; Curt. 4, 10, 29:

aliena bella mercedibus agere,

Mel. 1, 16:

Bellaque non puero tractat agenda puer,

Ov. A. A. 1, 182 (also in id. Tr. 2, 230, Gron. Observ. 2, 3, 227, for the usu. obit, with one MS., reads agit; so Merkel).— Poet.:

Martem for bellum,

Luc. 4, 2: agere proelium, to give battle (very rare):

levibus proeliis cum Gallis actis,

Liv. 22, 9.—Of offices, employments, etc., to conduct, exercise, administer, hold:

forum agere,

to hold court, Cic. Fam. 8, 6; and:

conventus agere,

to hold the assizes, id. Verr. 5, 11, 28; Caes. B. G. 1, 54; 6, 44;

used of the governors of provinces: judicium agere,

Plin. 9, 35, 58, § 120:

vivorum coetus agere,

to make assemblies of, to assemble, Tac. A. 16, 34:

censum agere,

Liv. 3, 22; Tac. A. 14, 46; Suet. Aug. 27:

recensum agere,

id. Caes. 41:

potestatem agere,

Flor. 1, 7, 2:

honorem agere,

Liv. 8, 26:

regnum,

Flor. 1, 6, 2:

rem publicam,

Dig. 4, 6, 35, § 8:

consulatum,

Quint. 12, 1, 16:

praefecturam,

Suet. Tib. 6:

centurionatum,

Tac. A. 1, 44:

senatum,

Suet. Caes. 88:

fiscum agere,

to have charge of the treasury, id. Dom. 12:

publicum agere,

to collect the taxes, id. Vesp. 1:

inquisitionem agere,

Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 18:

curam alicujus rei agere,

to have the management of, to manage, Liv. 6, 15; Suet. Claud. 18:

rei publicae curationem agens,

Liv. 4, 13: dilectum agere, to make a levy, to levy (postAug. for dilectum habere, Cic., Caes., Sall.), Quint. 12, 3, 5; Tac. A. 2, 16; id. Agr. 7 and 10; id. H. 2, 16, 12; Suet. Calig. 43. —

Of civil and political transactions in the senate, the forum, before tribunals of justice, etc., to manage or transact, to do, to discuss, plead, speak, deliberate; constr. aliquid or de aliqua re:

velim recordere, quae ego de te in senatu egerim, quae in contionibus dixerim,

Cic. Fam. 5, 2; 1, 9:

de condicionibus pacis,

Liv. 8, 37:

de summa re publica,

Suet. Caes. 28:

cum de Catilinae conjuratione ageretur in curia,

id. Aug. 94:

de poena alicujus,

Liv. 5, 36:

de agro plebis,

id. 1, 46.—Hence the phrase: agere cum populo, of magistrates, to address the people in a public assembly, for the purpose of obtaining their approval or rejection of a thing (while [p. 76] agere ad populum signifies to propose, to bring before the people):

cum populo agere est rogare quid populum, quod suffragiis suis aut jubeat aut vetet,

Gell. 13, 15, 10:

agere cum populo de re publica,

Cic. Verr. 1, 1, 12; id. Lael. 25, 96:

neu quis de his postea ad senatum referat neve cum populo agat,

Sall. C. 51, 43.—So also absol.:

hic locus (rostra) ad agendum amplissimus,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 1:

Metellus cum agere coepisset, tertio quoque verbo orationis suae me appellabat,

id. Fam. 5, 2.— Transf. to common life.

Agere cum aliquo, de aliquo or re or ut, to treat, deal, negotiate, confer, talk with one about a person or thing; to endeavor to persuade or move one, that, etc.: nihil age tecum (sc. cum odore vini);

ubi est ipsus (vini lepos)?

I have nothing to do with you, Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 11:

Quae (patria) tecum, Catilina, sic agit,

thus pleads, Cic. Cat. 1, 6, 18:

algae Inquisitores agerent cum remige nudo,

Juv. 4, 49:

haec inter se dubiis de rebus agebant,

thus treated together, Verg. A. 11, 445:

de quo et praesens tecum egi diligenter, et scripsi ad te accurate antea,

Cic. Fam. 13, 75:

egi cum Claudia et cum vestra sorore Mucia, ut eum ab illa injuria deterrerent,

id. ib. 5, 2:

misi ad Metellum communes amicos, qui agerent cum eo, ut de illa mente desisteret,

id. ib. 5, 2:

Callias quidam egit cum Cimone, ut eam (Elpinicen) sibi uxorem daret,

Nep. Cim. 1, 3.—Also absol.:

Alcibiades praesente vulgo agere coepit,

Nep. Alc. 8, 2:

si qua Caesares obtinendae Armeniae egerant,

Tac. A. 15, 14:

ut Lucretius agere varie, rogando alternis suadendoque coepit,

Liv. 2, 2.—In Suet. once agere cum senatu, with acc. and inf., to propose or state to the Senate:

Tiberius egit cum senatu non debere talia praemia tribui,

Suet. Tib. 54.—

With the advv. bene, praeclare, male, etc., to deal well or ill with one, to treat or use well or ill:

facile est bene agere cum eis, etc.,

Cic. Phil. 14, 11:

bene egissent Athenienses cum Miltiade, si, etc.,

Val. Max. 5, 3, 3 ext.; Vulg. Jud. 9, 16:

praeclare cum aliquo agere,

Cic. Sest. 23:

Male agis mecum,

Plaut. As. 1, 3, 21:

qui cum creditoribus suis male agat,

Cic. Quinct. 84; and:

tu contra me male agis,

Vulg. Jud. 11, 27.—Freq. in pass., to be or go well or ill with one, to be well or badly off:

intelleget secum actum esse pessime,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 50:

praeclare mecum actum puto,

id. Fam. 9, 24; so id. ib. 5, 18: exstat cujusdam non inscitus jocus bene agi potuisse cum rebus humanis, si Domitius pater talem habuisset uxorem, it would have gone well with human affairs, been well for mankind, if, etc., Suet. Ner. 28.—Also absol. without cum: agitur praeclare, si nosmet ipsos regere possumus, it is well done if, etc., it is a splendid thing if, etc., Cic. Fam. 4, 14:

vivitur cum eis, in quibus praeclare agitur si sunt simulacra virtutis,

id. Off. 1, 15:

bene agitur pro noxia,

Plaut. Mil. 5, 23.—

Of transactions before a court or tribunal.

Aliquid agere ex jure, ex syngrapha, ex sponso, or simply the abl. jure, lege, litibus, obsignatis tabellis, causa, to bring an action or suit, to manage a cause, to plead a case:

ex jure civili et praetorio agere,

Cic. Caecin. 12:

tamquam ex syngrapha agere cum populo,

to litigate, id. Mur. 17:

ex sponso egit,

id. Quint. 9: Ph. Una injuriast Tecum. Ch. Lege agito ergo, Go to law, then, Ter. Phorm. 5, 8, 90:

agere lege in hereditatem,

Cic. de Or. 1, 38, 175; Ov. F. 1, 48; Liv. 9, 46:

cum illo se lege agere dicebat,

Nep. Tim. 5: summo jure agere, to assert or claim one's right to the full extent of the law, Cic. Off. 1, 11:

non enim gladiis mecum, sed litibus agetur,

id. Q. Fr. 1, 4:

causa quam vi agere malle,

Tac. A. 13, 37:

tabellis obsignatis agis mecum,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 11, 33:

Jure, ut opinor, agat, jure increpet inciletque,

with right would bring her charge, Lucr. 3, 963; so,

Castrensis jurisdictio plura manu agens,

settles more cases by force, Tac. Agr. 9:

ubi manu agitur,

when the case is settled by violent hands, id. G. 36.—

Causam or rem agere, to try or plead a case; with apud, ad, or absol.:

causam apud centumviros egit,

Cic. Caecin. 24:

Caesar cum ageret apud censores,

Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 10; so with adversus:

egi causam adversus magistratus,

Vulg. 2 Esdr. 13, 11:

orator agere dicitur causam,

Varr. L. L. 6, 42: causam isto modo agere, Cic. Lig. 4, 10; Tac. Or. 5; 11; 14; Juv. 2, 51; 14, 132:

agit causas liberales,

Cic. Fam. 8, 9: qui ad rem agendam adsunt, M. Cael. ap. Quint. 11, 1, 51:

cum (M. Tullius) et ipsam se rem agere diceret,

Quint. 12, 10, 45: Gripe, accede huc;

tua res agitur,

is being tried, Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 104; Quint. 8, 3, 13;

and extra-judicially: rogo ad Caesarem meam causam agas,

Cic. Fam. 5, 10:

Una (factio) populi causam agebat, altera optimatum,

Nep. Phoc. 3; so, agere, absol., to plead' ad judicem sic agi solet, Cic. Lig. 10:

tam solute agere, tam leniter,

id. Brut. 80:

tu istuc nisi fingeres, sic ageres?

id. ib. 80; Juv. 7, 143 and 144; 14, 32.— Transf. to common life; with de or acc., to discuss, treat, speak of:

Sed estne hic ipsus, de quo agebam?

of whom I was speaking, Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 53:

causa non solum exponenda, sed etiam graviter copioseque agenda est,

to be discussed, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 12; id. Verr. 1, 13, 37:

Samnitium bella, quae agimus,

are treating of, Liv. 10, 31.—Hence,

Agere aliquem reum, to proceed against one as accused, to accuse one, Liv. 4, 42; 24, 25; Tac. A. 14, 18:

reus agitur,

id. ib. 15, 20; 3, 13; and with the gen. of the crime, with which one is charged:

agere furti,

to accuse of theft, Cic. Fam. 7, 22:

adulterii cum aliquo,

Quint. 4, 4, 8:

injuriarum,

id. 3, 6, 19; and often in the Pandects.—

Pass. of the thing which is the subject of accusation, to be in suit or in question; it concerns or affects, is about, etc.:

non nunc pecunia, sed illud agitur, quomodo, etc.,

Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 67:

non capitis ei res agitur, sed pecuniae,

the point in dispute, id. Phorm. 4, 3, 26:

aguntur injuriae sociorum, agitur vis legum, agitur existimatio, veritasque judiciorum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 51:

si magna res, magna hereditas agetur,

id. Fin. 2, 17: qua de re agitur, what the point of dispute or litigation is, id. Brut. 79.—Hence, trop.,

Res agitur, the case is on trial, i. e. something is at stake or at hazard, in peril, or in danger:

at nos, quarum res agitur, aliter auctores sumus,

Plaut. Stich. 1, 2, 72:

quasi istic mea res minor agatur quam tua,

Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 113:

agitur populi Romani gloria, agitur salus sociorum atque amicorum, aguntur certissima populi Romani vectigalia et maxima, aguntur bona multorum civium,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 2, 6:

in quibus eorum aut caput agatur aut fama,

id. Lael. 17, 61; Nep. Att. 15, 2:

non libertas solum agebatur,

Liv. 28, 19; Sen. Clem. 1, 20 al.:

nam tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet,

Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 84 (= in periculo versatur, Lambin.):

agitur pars tertia mundi,

is at stake, I am in danger of losing, Ov. M. 5, 372.—

Res acta est, the case is over (and done for): acta haec res est;

perii,

this matter is ended, Ter. Heaut. 3, 3, 3: hence, actum est de aliquo or aliqua re, it is all over with a person or thing:

actum hodie est de me,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 63:

jam de Servio actum,

Liv. 1, 47:

actum est de collo meo,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 4, 194.—So also absol.: actumst;

ilicet me infelicem,

Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 17:

si animus hominem pepulit, actumst,

id. Trin. 2, 2, 27; Ter. And. 3, 1, 7; Cic. Att. 5, 15:

actumst, ilicet, peristi,

Ter. Eun. 1, 1, 9: periimus;

actumst,

id. Heaut. 3, 3, 3.—

Rem actam agere, to plead a case already finished, i. e. to act to no purpose:

rem actam agis,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 27; id. Cist. 4, 2, 36; Liv. 28, 40; so,

actum or acta agere: actum, aiunt, ne agas,

Ter. Phorm. 2, 3, 72; Cic. Att. 9, 18:

acta agimus,

id. Am. 22.—

To represent by external action, to perform, pronounce, deliver, etc.

Of an orator, Cic. de Or. 1, 31, 142; cf. id. ib. 2, 19, 79:

quae sic ab illo acta esse constabat oculis, voce, gestu, inimici ut lacrimas tenere non possent,

id. ib. 3, 56, 214:

agere fortius et audentius volo,

Tac. Or. 18; 39.—

Of an actor, to represent, play, act:

Ipse hanc acturust Juppiter comoediam,

Plaut. Am. prol. 88; so,

fabulam,

Ter. Ad. prol. 12; id. Hec. prol. 22:

dum haec agitur fabula,

Plaut. Men. prol. 72 al.:

partis,

to have a part in a play, Ter. Phorm. prol. 27:

Ballionem illum cum agit, agit Chaeream,

Cic. Rosc. Com. 7:

gestum agere in scaena,

id. de Or. 2, 57:

dicitur canticum egisse aliquanto magis vigente motu,

Liv. 7, 2 al. — Transf. to other relations, to represent or personate one, to act the part of, to act as, behave like: has partes lenitatis semper egi, Cic. Mur. 3:

egi illos omnes adulescentes, quos ille actitat,

id. Fam. 2, 9:

amicum imperatoris,

Tac. H. 1, 30:

exulem,

id. A. 1, 4:

socium magis imperii quam ministrum,

id. H. 2, 83:

senatorem,

Tac. A. 16, 28.—So of things poetically:

utrinque prora frontem agit,

serves as a bow, Tac. G. 44.—

Se agere = se gerere, to carry one's self, to behave, deport one's self:

tanta mobilitate sese Numidae agunt,

Sall. J. 56, 5:

quanto ferocius ante se egerint,

Tac. H. 3, 2 Halm:

qui se pro equitibus Romanis agerent,

Suet. Claud. 25:

non principem se, sed ministrum egit,

id. ib. 29:

neglegenter se et avare agere,

Eutr. 6, 9:

prudenter se agebat,

Vulg. 1 Reg. 18, 5:

sapienter se agebat,

ib. 4 Reg. 18, 7. —Also absol.:

seditiose,

Tac. Agr. 7:

facile justeque,

id. ib. 9:

superbe,

id. H. 2, 27:

ex aequo,

id. ib. 4, 64:

anxius et intentus agebat,

id. Agr. 5.—

Imper.: age, agite, Ter., Tib., Lucr., Hor., Ov., never using agite, and Catull. never age, with which compare the Gr. age, agete (also accompanied by the particles dum, eia, en, ergo, igitur, jam, modo, nuncjam, porro, quare, quin, sane, vero, verum, and by sis); as an exclamation.

In encouragement, exhortation, come! come on! (old Engl. go to!) up! on! quick! (cf. I. B. fin.).

In the sing.:

age, adsta, mane, audi, Enn. ap. Delr. Synt. 1, 99: age i tu secundum,

come, follow me! Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 1:

age, perge, quaeso,

id. Cist. 2, 3, 12:

age, da veniam filio,

Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 14:

age, age, nunc experiamur,

id. ib. 5, 4, 23:

age sis tu... delude,

Plaut. As. 3, 3, 89; id. Ep. 3, 4, 39; Cic. Tusc. 2, 18; id. Rosc. Am. 16:

quanto ferocius ante se egerint, agedum eam solve cistulam,

Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 151; id. Capt. 3, 4, 39:

Agedum vicissim dic,

Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 69; id. Eun. 4, 4, 27:

agedum humanis concede,

Lucr. 3, 962:

age modo hodie sero,

Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 103:

age nuncjam,

id. And. 5, 2, 25:

En age, quid cessas,

Tib. 2, 2, 10:

Quare age,

Verg. A. 7, 429:

Verum age,

id. ib. 12, 832:

Quin age,

id. G. 4, 329:

en, age, Rumpe moras,

id. ib. 3, 43:

eia age,

id. A. 4, 569.—

In the plur.:

agite, pugni,

up, fists, and at 'em! Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 146:

agite bibite,

id. Curc. 1, 1, 88; id. Stich. 1, 3, 68:

agite in modum dicite,

Cat. 61, 38:

Quare agite... conjungite,

id. 64, 372; Verg. A. 1, 627:

vos agite... volvite,

Val. Fl. 3, 311:

agite nunc, divites, plorate,

Vulg. Jac. 5, 1:

agitedum,

Liv. 3, 62.—Also age in the sing., with a verb in the plur. (cf. age tamnete, Hom. Od. 3, 332; age dê trapeiomen, id. Il. 3, 441):

age igitur, intro abite,

Plaut. Mil. 3, 3, 54:

En agedum convertite,

Prop. 1, 1, 21:

mittite, agedum, legatos,

Liv. 38, 47:

Ite age,

Stat. Th. 10, 33:

Huc age adeste,

Sil. 11, 169.—

In transitions in discourse, well then! well now! well! (esp. in Cic. Or. very freq.). So in Plaut. for resuming discourse that has been interrupted: age, tu interea huic somnium narra, Curc. 2, 2, 5: nunc age, res quoniam docui non posse creari, etc., well now, since I have taught, etc., Lucr. 1, 266:

nunc age, quod superest, cognosce et clarius audi,

id. 1, 920; so id. 1, 952; 2, 62; 333; 730; 3, 418;

4, 109 al.: age porro, tu, qui existimari te voluisti interpretem foederum, cur, etc.,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 22; so id. Rosc. Am. 16; id. Part. 12; id. Att. 8, 3.—And age (as in a.) with a verb in the plur.:

age vero, ceteris in rebus qualis sit temperantia considerate,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 14; so id. Sull. 26; id. Mil. 21; id. Rosc. Am. 37.—

As a sign of assent, well! very well! good! right! Age, age, mansero, Plaut. As. 2, 2, 61: age, age, jam ducat;

dabo,

Ter. Phorm. 4, 3, 57:

Age, veniam,

id. And. 4, 2, 30:

age, sit ita factum,

Cic. Mil. 19:

age sane,

Plaut. Ps. 5, 2, 27; Cic. Fin. 2, 35, 119.

—Age, used with another verb in the imperative, regularly stands before it, but in poetry, for the sake of the metre, it,

Sometimes follows such verb; as,

In dactylic metre:

Cede agedum,

Prop. 5, 9, 54:

Dic age,

Verg. A. 6, 343; Hor. S. 2, 7, 92; Ov. F. 1, 149:

Esto age,

Pers. 2, 42:

Fare age,

Verg. A. 3, 362:

Finge age,

Ov. H. 7, 65:

Redde age,

Hor. S. 2, 8, 80:

Surge age,

Verg. A. 3, 169; 8, 59; 10, 241; Ov. H. 14, 73:

Vade age,

Verg. A. 3, 462; 4, 422; so,

agite: Ite agite,

Prop. 4, 3, 7.—

In other metres (very rarely):

appropera age,

Plaut. Cas. 2, 2, 38:

dic age,

Hor. C. 1, [p. 77] 32, 3; 2, 11, 22;

3, 4, 1.—So also in prose (very rarely): Mittite agedum,

Liv. 38, 47:

procedat agedum ad pugnam,

id. 7, 9.—

It is often separated from such verb:

age me huc adspice,

Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 118; id. Capt. 5, 2, 1:

Age... instiga,

Ter. And. 4, 2, 10; 5, 6, 11:

Quare agite... conjungite,

Cat. 64, 372:

Huc age... veni,

Tib. 2, 5, 2:

Ergo age cervici imponere nostrae,

Verg. A. 2, 707:

en age segnis Rumpe moras,

id. G. 3, 42:

age te procellae Crede,

Hor. C. 3, 27, 62:

Age jam... condisce,

id. ib. 4, 11, 31; id. S. 2, 7, 4.—Hence,

ăgens, entis, P. a.

Adj.

Efficient, effective, powerful (only in the rhet. lang. of Cic.):

utendum est imaginibus agentibus, acribus, insignitis,

Cic. de Or. 2, 87, 358:

acre orator, incensus et agens,

id. Brut. 92, 317.— Comp. and sup. not used.

Agentia verba, in the grammarians, for verba activa, Gell. 18, 12.—

Subst.: ăgentes, ium.

Under the emperors, a kind of secret police (also called frumentarii and curiosi), Aur. Vict. Caes. 39 fin.; Dig. 1, 12; 1, 20; 21; 22; 23, etc.; Amm. 15, 3; 14, 11 al.—

For agrimensores, land-surveyors, Hyg. Lim. p. 179.—

actus, a, um, P. a. Lit., that has been transacted in the Senate, in the forum, before the courts of justice, etc.; hence,

actum, i, n., a public transaction in the Senate, before the people, or before a single magistrate:

actum ejus, qui in re publica cum imperio versatus sit,

Cic. Phil. 1, 7:

acta Caesaris servanda censeo,

id. ib. 1, 7:

acta tui praeclari tribunatus,

id. Dom. 31.—

acta publĭca, or absol.: acta, orum, n., the register of public acts, records, journal. Julius Caesar, in his consulship, ordered that the doings of the Senate (diurna acta) should be made public, Suet. Caes. 20; cf. Ernest. Exc. 1;

but Augustus again prohibited it,

Suet. Aug. 36. Still the acts of the Senate were written down, and, under the succeeding emperors. certain senators were appointed to this office (actis vel commentariis Senatus conficiendis), Tac. A. 5, 4. They had also public registers of the transactions of the assemblies of the people, and of the different courts of justice;

also of births and deaths, marriages, divorces, etc., which were preserved as sources of future history.—Hence, diurna urbis acta,

the city journal, Tac. A. 13, 31:

acta populi,

Suet. Caes. 20:

acta publica,

Tac. A. 12, 24; Suet. Tib. 8; Plin. Ep. 7, 33:

urbana,

id. ib. 9, 15; which were all comprehended under the gen. name acta.

With the time added:

acta eorum temporum,

Plin. 7, 13, 11, § 60:

illius temporis,

Ascon. Mil. 44, 16:

ejus anni,

Plin. 2, 56, 57, § 147.—

Absol., Cic. Fam. 12, 8; 22, 1; 28, 3; Sen. Ben. 2, 10; 3, 16; Suet. Calig. 8; Quint. 9, 3; Juv. 2, 136: Quis dabit historico, quantum daret acta legenti, i. e. to the actuarius, q. v., id. 7, 104; cf. Bahr's Rom. Lit. Gesch. 303.—

acta triumphōrum, the public record of triumphs, fuller than the Fasti triumphales, Plin. 37, 2, 6, § 12.—

acta fŏri (v. Inscr. Grut. 445, 10), the records,

Of strictly historical transactions, Amm. 22, 3, 4; Dig. 4, 6, 33, § 1.—

Of matters of private right, as wills, gifts, bonds (acta ad jus privatorum pertinentia, Dig. 49, 14, 45, § 4), Fragm. Vat. §§ 249, 266, 268, 317.—

acta militarĭa, the daily records of the movements of a legion, Veg. R. R. 2, 19.

ăgo, egi, actum, 3, v. a. (axim = egerim, Pac. ap. Non. 505, 22; Paul. ex Fest. s. v. axitiosi, p. 3 Mull.;

axit = egerit,

Paul. Diac. 3, 3;

AGIER = agi,

Cic. Off. 3, 15;

agentum = agentium,

Vulc. Gall. Av. Cass. 4, 6) [cf. agô; Sanscr. ag, aghami = to go, to drive; agmas = way, train = ogmos; agis = race, contest = agôn; perh. also Germ. jagen, to drive, to hunt], to put in motion, to move (syn.: agitare, pellere, urgere).

Lit.